I had two versions on my Mac, worked fine. I don’t have an Ubuntu machine, but I seem to remember that `apt-get` is a package installer for Ubuntu, e.g. `apt-get upgrade` to upgrade existing packages. ?
I don’t think using installing or using GnuPG requires any software engineering competency. :) Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 4 Jan 2015, at 13:39, Philip Jackson <philip.jack...@nordnet.fr> wrote: > > On 04/01/15 13:18, Giordano Lipari wrote: >> My machine runs with on a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS distribution. This comes with a >> default GnuPG 1.4.16 located mainly in /usr/bin as gpg. My competency in >> software engineering is limited. Following the indications in >> https://www.gnupg.org/download/index.html and common sense, I managed to >> install >> GnuPG 2.0.26 that, however, ended up in /usr/local/bin as pgp2. Therefore I >> now >> seem to have two GnuPG packages active on my computer. Admittedly my >> expectation >> was that the new version would have taken care of continuity from the old >> one. >> > >> [3] After [2] is succesful, will a tool such Enigmail (but, in general, all >> applications counting on GnuPG) automatically recognise the latest version, >> seen >> that the new version is called gpg2 instead of gpg? > > You don't need to worry greatly. Gnupg 1.4.16 and gnupg 2.0.26 can co-exist > on > the same machine with no problem. > > I am in exactly the same case with Ubuntu. I did the same as you and Enigmail > immediately picked up the 2.0.26 gpg2 which it uses with no problems. > > I tend to use 1.4.16 from the command line. > > However, the next step is to to move to gnupg 2.1 and that cannot co-exist > with > 2.0 versions. > Philip > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
