Hi John, You could try the following environment variable:
export PINENTRY_USER_DATA="USE_CURSES=1” If that’s no good maybe something in following thread helps: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2009-June/036583.html -- Ville On 16 Oct 2014, at 23:02, John Lane <gn...@jelmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I am trying to work out a few things with GnuPG that aren't clear > to me after reading the available documentation. I hope it's ok to ask > for some help? > > Here's my first problem: > > I cannot work our how to tell my desktop-less system to use the curses > pinentry program. I can see that is is configurable for gpg-agent.conf > but I see no equivalent for gpg.conf. The only way I have been able to > do this is to re-point a symlink /usr/bin/pinentry to point to > /usr/bin/pinentry-curses instead of /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk. > > I have read the pinentry readme and see the configure options for it. I > have cross checked with how the package is built for Arch Linux, which > is the Linux distribution that I use. The configure options are > > ./configure --prefix=/usr \ > --enable-pinentry-curses \ > --disable-pinentry-gtk \ > --disable-pinentry-qt \ > --enable-pinentry-gtk2 \ > --enable-pinentry-qt4 \ > --enable-fallback-curses > > The installed binaries are like this: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 6 2013 /usr/bin/pinentry -> > /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48216 May 6 2013 /usr/bin/pinentry-curses > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 107384 May 6 2013 /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 153064 May 6 2013 /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 > > It isn't possible to launch the gtk-2 or qt4 versions without the > requisite libraries being installed, so both fail rather than fall back > to the curses version: > > # /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 > /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4: error while loading shared libraries: > libQtCore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > # /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 > /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2: error while loading shared libraries: > libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > > The curses version works fine. Now, as far as I understand, the gnupg > binary uses the symlink "/usr/bin/pinentry" and, with the above > configuration that means the gtk2 version. And, if the system doesn't > have that installed then it fails. > > I can obviously change the symlink to point to the curses version but, > if I do, it'll eventually get reset by my distributions package manager. > > As far as I can tell, it's the pinentry package's "make install" that > creates this symlink rather than something distribution-specific. > > So, what is the correct, approved way to get gpg to use the curses > pinentry ? > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
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