Thanks to everybody for help and suggestions. At the end I have installed checkinstall, removed all the previous installations of GNUPG and used checkinstall for making the last version available in the system.
The server where I had this problem is used just by me, so I had no critical points to handle with other users. Giangios Barry Smith-4 wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, Giangios. > > | 3 installations of GNUPG. > > I would follow the following procedure -- > 1) I would carefully and politely (aka, politically) > ~ research why there are three gpg's installed on > ~ the server. > > 2) Then I would update the "correctly" "standardly" > ~ installed version of gpg. > > 3) Then I would politely send out an email/memo to all > ~ parties involved in the non-standard copies of gpg, > ~ and inform them that > ~ "The latest version of gpg has been installed > ~ on the server in [the standard library]. > ~ Please contact [someone] about using the > ~ latest version of gpg. This change will > ~ happen on end of day Friday [2008/05/23]." > ~ Please, use all of the politeness that you can in > ~ this email/memo, because you want the users to > ~ contact you voluntarily to make sure that they > ~ are using the correct gpg. > > 4) Cron a script to run on [2008/08/23] to delete > ~ the two wrong gpg directories. > > Optionally -- > 5) In the cron'd script, create symbolic links from > ~ the old directories to the new directories. > > Sidebar tech ref guidance -- > ~ Copied from a web page -- > ~ > ln -s [TARGET DIRECTORY OR FILE] ./[SHORTCUT] > ~ > > ~ > For example: > ~ > > ~ > ln -s /usr/local/apache/logs ./logs > ~ > > ~ > This points a symbolic link "./logs" to "/usr/local/apache/logs" > > ~ Symbolic links in some of the "Unices" can have their own overhead > ~ (OS is picky about doing "rm -r" when a Symbolic link is > ~ encountered). On the "Unices", Symbolic Links work super effectively > ~ for program execution, and data access. > > > As everyone is probably aware (probably), on the > "Unices," all individual keyrings are stored in > a ".gpg" directory under each user's "/home/[user]/" > directory. I point that out so that I can point > out the central point... that updating a central > version of gpg should be invisibly impactless to > any and all users, once they correct the use of > the different/alternate/deleted versions of gpg. > > Further comment -- > I ran across a similar problem in Windows. > 1) One was needed by Cygwin (Linux under Windows), > 2) one was needed by my email program (Thunderbird), and > 3) one was needed by a GPG file toolpack (GPG4Win) > that I use regularly. > > I determined that it would be easier to > - -- do the installation into the default location (which is > ~ where the GPG4Windows looks), and then > - -- Do the installation again into the location that my email > ~ program looked for GPG, and lastly > - -- build the gpg for Cygwin from source. > > Technical > Yes, during my efforts, I found out that there is a Windows > Environment variable (as well as a cygwin/"Unices" alias) that > can be set for GPG to look in one location for the executables... > not PATH, but another one, something like gpgpath... the gpg > docs are really written from a Unix/Linux perspective, and > should cover this in perfect detail for your Linux-viewpoint. > > Best of Luck. > > Let me know off-list if there is anything else that you want > to ask me directly about this task. > > Peace, > > Barry Smith > > > > > giangios wrote: > | Hi to evrybody, > | > | I am not very familiar with linux and I have found out that GNUPG was > | installed more than once on the server. There was already a > preinstalled one > | and trying to install and configure the last version I have realized > that I > | have now 3 installations of GNUPG. > | > | How can I remove all the installations? > | > | Shall I go to the build directory and type 'make uninstall'? > | > | This would work in the 2 I have installed (maybe), but what concerning > the > | preinstalled version. > | > | Could somebody explain me how to remove all the installations? > | > | Thanks > > > - -- > > Barry Smith (2008-01-21 2048 no expire) > <bnsmith001 [at] gmail [dot] com> > Public Key ID : 0xBA649960 > Key fingerprint : BAF9 A3F3 DF31 5038 1D72 442C 80E9 FF84 BA64 9960 > If you can't find my key, tell me what keyserver to upload it to, > or ask my to send it to you directly. > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by Norton 360 All-In-One (http://www.symantec.com). > > Peace and Love! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkg8fssACgkQgOn/hLpkmWA/sQCfVtKO+Clpbhxdr71alRacj2Ke > 368An00FHi3TdF0l+YzCjzHXxjk7udcP > =quG4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Removing-all-installed-versions-of-GNUPG-tp17464099p17507257.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
