lusfert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello. > >I downloaded GnuPG source and checked its signature (under Windows): >ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.2.tar.bz2 >ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.2.tar.bz2.sig
You did that part right. >Then I rebooted into recently installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r0a system >and built program from source: > >$ cd /home/[user]/ >$ bunzip2 gnupg-1.4.2.tar.bz2 >$ tar xvf gnupg-1.4.2.tar better: $ bunzip2 gnupg-1.4.2.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf - >$ cd ./gnupg-1.4.2 >$ ./configure Where did the output go? To /dev/null? Since you are not using C Shell (please use bash, sh, of ksh), do it this way: $ ./configure > LOG.config 2> ERR.config Now you can study the results to decide what to do next... I can already tell you right now that you will be building the BZIP library. If you see the following magic line in the LOG.config file: "checking whether to enable the BZIP2 compression algorithm... yes" you will know you are okay. If you don't ... more on that in a moment... >$ make Ditto with output going to other files... $ make > LOG.make 2> ERR.make $ ls -l ERR.* If both of those files are empty, you may be okay. If they are and you are happy with what is in the LOG.* files, then you can proceed... ># make install > >After these steps command "gpg --version" displays the following: > >gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.2 >[...] >Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB <SNIP> First, I am assuming you put the program by default into /usr/local. Do you have /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin first in your PATH? I ALWAYS DO THIS TO MY PATH VARIABLE. That is because I leave the older version of GnuPG (and whatever else) alone since I don't want to get whacked by an update from the OS creators that undoes all that nice work to get things as up to date as possible (especially useful with GnuPG). Download bzip2 and install it in all its glory (which includes not only the executables, but also the header and bzip2 link library files. http://www.bzip.org/ Strange, but it isn't as nicely integrated into ClamAV as it is in GnuPG. I may REALLY need it there in the future once MS Windows is dead and the virus writers move on to Linux and back to where the very first virus was written - TO UNIX! Strange - it seems like they would have provided bzip2 with the libraries and header files by now in most distributions by default. Does anybody know the reason why they are not doing it? Happy bzip2'ing, but I really would advise that if you are going to be sending to MS Windows people to use either gzip or zip as your default compression algorithm. Most Windows compression programs can handle them, but one of the things I do to contain the Trojan files while they are on Windows is to bzip2 them on Linux. When virus writers conceal their nasty worms in bzip2 files, all of this will change. Henry Hertz Hobbit __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
