Help to Install GPG on Mac

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Robert D. wrote:
> Now ... where exactly *should* gpg.conf reside if gpg wound up
> installed in
>
> \opt\local\bin\

It didn't install in \opt\local\bin.

It installed in /opt/local/bin.

UNIX uses forward slashes to separate directories. DOS and Windows use
backwards slashes. You'll need to get used to the difference.

Apocryphally, Microsoft chose to use the backslash as a directory
separator because they feared a lawsuit from UNIX vendors if they used a
forward slash. I have no idea if there's any truth in it.

Anyway:

In your home directory--_not_ the desktop--there should be a directory
called ".gnupg". Put gpg.conf in there.

> AND .... which program will generate it and under what circumstances?

You generate it. GnuPG is not in the business of deciding what your
configuration file should be.

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On Jul 23, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> UNIX uses forward slashes to separate directories.

ah yes, thanks

> In your home directory--_not_ the desktop--there should be a
directory
> called ".gnupg". Put gpg.conf in there.

well, actually, I see the only folder named .gnupg located from the
root at

/opt/local/share/gnupg/ ...... where I then put the gpg.conf

and my home folder, with the house icon, is labeled something else.

I'll need the names of those two mac/unix/apple books also (svp) as
your previously retained email listing same was wiped when the user
was wiped and rebuilt (that would be me) under the direction of the
Apple-Care person.

I've tried the command

gpg --option /opt/local/share/gnupg/gpg.conf

however I get:

gpg: /opt/local/share/gnupg/gpg.conf:34: invalid option

- --

Robert D.

> AND .... which program will generate it and under what circumstances?

You generate it. GnuPG is not in the business of deciding what your
configuration file should be.

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Robert D. wrote:
> well, actually, I see the only folder named .gnupg located from the
> root at
>
> /opt/local/share/gnupg/ ...... where I then put the gpg.conf

That's not where it belongs.

- From Terminal.app, type:

cd $HOME/.gnupg
cp /path/to/your/gpg.conf .

> I'll need the names of those two mac/unix/apple books also (svp) as
> your previously retained email listing same was wiped when the user
> was wiped and rebuilt (that would be me) under the direction of the
> Apple-Care person.

David Pogue, "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition". O'Reilly Press.

Dave Taylor, "Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger";. O'Reilly Press.

> I've tried the command
>
> gpg --option /opt/local/share/gnupg/gpg.conf
>
> however I get:
>
> gpg: /opt/local/share/gnupg/gpg.conf:34: invalid option

This would seem to indicate there's an error on line 34 of your gpg.conf
file.

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On Jul 24, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:

>
> cd $HOME/.gnupg
> cp /path/to/your/gpg.conf

successful

I have run GPG preferences and it tells me it was successful.

I can only *see* one gpg.conf anywhere on the drive, via Finder.
Where then is, and how do I see, the gpg.conf residing in .gnupg ??
Because, it seems, only changes made in THAT file will make a
difference.

There is an Icon on the System Preferences Window at the bottom,
called GPG. But I get an error when I select that one telling me it
can not run GPG Preferences Pane on this computer. I have re-
installed successfully several times.

When I try to sign an email now, there is no key-ID listed in the
space beside "Signed" to the right of PGP: ... AND thus, I can not
sign.

Sorry to be a bother ... this change over from PC to Apple is rather
convoluted when one considers one has to learn a new system also.

--
Robert D.

when I try to run GPG preferences and if I watch ZConsole, I see:

===== Monday, July 24, 2006 2:07:15 PM US/Eastern =====
2006-07-24 14:08:34.369 Terminal[344] .scriptSuite warning for
attribute 'properties' of class 'TerminalApp' in suite 'Terminal':
'NSAppleEventDescriptor' is not a valid type name.
2006-07-24 14:08:34.369 Terminal[344] .scriptSuite warning for
attribute 'position' of class 'NSWindow' in suite 'Terminal':
'NSAppleEventDescriptor' is not a valid type name.
2006-07-24 14:08:34.369 Terminal[344] .scriptSuite warning for
attribute 'properties' of class 'NSWindow' in suite 'Terminal':
'NSAppleEventDescriptor' is not a valid type name.
2006-07-24 14:08:34.369 Terminal[344] .scriptSuite warning for
attribute 'bounds' of class 'NSWindow' in suite 'Terminal':
'NSAppleEventDescriptor' is not a valid type name.
2006-07-24 14:08:34.369 Terminal[344] .scriptSuite warning for result
type of command 'doScript' in suite 'Terminal': the type NSString
('utxt') doesn't match the result Apple event code ('****').
2006-07-24 14:09:03.346 GPG Keychain Access[398] /Users/rd/Library/
PreferencePanes/GnuPG.prefPane
2006-07-24 14:09:03.348 GPG Keychain Access[398] LSCopyItemInfoForURL
() returned -43 for path /Users/rd/Library/PreferencePanes/
GnuPG.prefPane.
2006-07-24 14:09:03.348 GPG Keychain Access[398] /Library/
PreferencePanes/GnuPG.prefPane
2006-07-24 14:09:03.794 System Preferences[433] *** -[NSBundle load]:
Error loading code /Library/PreferencePanes/GnuPG.prefPane/Contents/
MacOS/GnuPG for bundle /Library/PreferencePanes/GnuPG.prefPane, error
code 2 (link edit error code 0, error number 0 ())
2006-07-24 14:09:03.794 System Preferences[433] [NSPrefPaneBundle
instantiatePrefPaneObject] (/Library/PreferencePanes/GnuPG.prefPane):
principalClass is nil.

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I re-ran the install of GPG-Mail and watched the console.
I also made another key and now there are the available keys for
signing this email.
Still leaves me to wonder where the gpg.conf resides for editing.
I have set this email to *sign* FWIW

Here is the console output of the GPG-Mail run noting errors if they
are important.

===== Monday, July 24, 2006 2:11:37 PM US/Eastern =====
2006-07-24 14:12:12.738 GPG Keychain Access[398] *** Assertion
failure in -[NSComboBoxCell
_objectValue:forString:errorDescription:], AppKit.subproj/NSCell.m:1298
2006-07-24 14:12:12.770 GPG Keychain Access[398] Invalid parameter
not satisfying: aString != nil
gpg: Generating new key...
.......+++++
............+++++
gpg: key 9FE9A351 marked as ultimately trusted
gpg: Finished generating new key
2006-07-24 14:16:53.999 System Events[482] .scriptSuite warning for
attribute 'currentUser' of class 'NSApplication' in suite
'SystemEvents': 'Accounts.User' is not a valid type name.
2006-07-24 14:16:54.014 System Events[482] .scriptSuite warning for
to-many relationship 'loginItems' of class 'NSApplication' in suite
'SystemEvents': 'logi' is not the Apple event code of any known
scriptable class.
2006-07-24 14:16:54.014 System Events[482] .scriptSuite warning for
to-many relationship 'localUsers' of class 'NSApplication' in suite
'SystemEvents': 'uacc' is not the Apple event code of any known
scriptable class.
2006-07-24 14:17:02.449 Mail[490] Loaded GPGMail 1.1.2 (Tiger)

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Robert D. wrote:
> Still leaves me to wonder where the gpg.conf resides for editing.

As said before, it lives in $HOME/.gnupg.

While the directory $HOME/.gnupg almost certainly exists, gpg.conf may
not exist. Put it in there.

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Robert D. wrote:
> when I try to run GPG preferences and if I watch ZConsole, I see:

This is a problem with GPGPreferences, not GnuPG. I don't use
GPGPreferences. I'd suggest complaining to the GPGPreferences
developers.

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Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> This is a problem with GPGPreferences, not GnuPG. I don't use
> GPGPreferences. I'd suggest complaining to the GPGPreferences
> developers.

I didn't get GPG Preferences to work either. Seems to be a compatibility
issue.

However, I did get gpg to install and discovered that I needed to run
the Intel version of Enigmail. Things are OK now.

- --
- -= Curtis =-

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
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