On Wed 2015-02-11 14:02:49 -0500, Philip Jackson wrote: > On 11/02/15 14:59, Brian Minton wrote: >> In Debian, the experimental repo has gpg 2.1 with all dependencies. Follow >> the >> instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental > > Thank you for that suggestion, Brian. I looked into the link you provided and > decided that to see the precise name of the package, I'd add the repository > address into source info in Synaptic Package manager. Which I did, together > with Debian's gpg key. > > After reload, I searched for possible packages available at Debian > experimental > repo but failed to find any with names like gpg*, gnupg*. > > So I'm not there yet. No hurry, though - lots to learn.
You don't say how you searched specifically, so i can't say what's gone wrong in your case. Here's what i see: 0 dkg@alice:~$ apt-cache policy gnupg2 gnupg2: Installed: 2.1.1-1 Candidate: 2.1.1-1 Version table: *** 2.1.1-1 0 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.0.26-4 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 200 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 0 dkg@alice:~$ hth, --dkg _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users