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From: |
Sylvain Beucler |
Subject: |
[Savannah-cvs] administration/content/gnu-content/faq Download... |
Date: |
Wed, 04 May 2005 15:03:33 -0400 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/administration
Module name: administration
Branch:
Changes by: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> 05/05/04 19:03:33
Modified files:
content/gnu-content/faq:
Download_Area_-_How_to_install_and_use_gpg-agent.txt
Log message:
clean-up
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/administration/administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_to_install_and_use_gpg-agent.txt.diff?tr1=1.1&tr2=1.2&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index:
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_to_install_and_use_gpg-agent.txt
diff -u
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_to_install_and_use_gpg-agent.txt:1.1
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_to_install_and_use_gpg-agent.txt:1.2
---
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_to_install_and_use_gpg-agent.txt:1.1
Thu Apr 14 21:19:54 2005
+++
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_to_install_and_use_gpg-agent.txt
Wed May 4 19:03:33 2005
@@ -1,17 +1,27 @@
-<p>Here are some details on my installation (I used my laptop that runs
-Red Hat GNU/Linux 7.3 as a test machine):</p>
-
-<p>NOTE: Depending on your GNU/Linux distribution, you may or may not need
-to install anything but gpg-agent and pinentry. Finding out whether or
-not you already have the required software (or required version) is fairly
-distribution-dependant, though some of the following may be of help:</p>
+<p>Depending on your GNU/Linux distribution, you can find precompiled
+packages.</p>
<ul>
-<li>Debian GNU/Linux: See `man apt-cache' and `man apt-get'</li>
-<li>Gentoo GNU/Linux: See `man emerge'</li>
-<li>Red Hat GNU/Linux (or Fedora): See `man rpm'</li>
+<li>Debian GNU/Linux and derivates (Ubuntu, Knoppix...): <i>gnupg-agent</i>
(install with Synaptic, <code>apt-get</code> or <code>dkpg</code>)</li>
+<li>Gentoo GNU/Linux: <i>gpg-agent</i> (install with <code>emerge</code>)</li>
+<li>RPM-based (RedHat, Fedora...): <i>gnupg2</i> (install with
<code>yum</code>, <code>apt-get</code> for RPM or <code>rpm</code>)</li>
</ul>
+
+
+<p>Here is how to use gpg-agent in a simple way:
+<pre>
+eval `gpg-agent --daemon` # start the daemon
+gpg --sign -b --use-agent file.tar.gz # asked passphrase
+gpg --sign -b --use-agent file2.tar.gz # did not ask passphrase
+# ...
+killall gpg-agent # stop the daemon
+</pre>
+
+
+<p>And here are some details on how I manually compiled it on my old
+laptop running Red Hat GNU/Linux 7.3:</p>
+
<ol>
<li>First, I installed some dependencies. I installed them from source.
<ul>
@@ -72,13 +82,4 @@
echo "default-cache-ttl 600" > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf # remembers the
passphrase for 10mn (optional)
echo "pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-gtk" >> ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
# uses the GTK mode, the ncurses mode did not work for me
</pre></li>
-
-<li>Here is how to use gpg-agent in a simple way:
-<pre>
-eval `gpg-agent --daemon` # start the daemon
-gpg --sign -b --use-agent file.tar.gz # asked passphrase
-gpg --sign -b --use-agent file2.tar.gz # did not ask passphrase
-# ...
-killall gpg-agent # stop the daemon
-</pre></li>
</ol>