Hello! For the first time we published an AppImage of GnuPG along with Kleopatra as its GUI. An AppImage may be used on any Linux version without the need to build new libraries and to remove the GnuPG already installed on the system. It comes with the latest libraries and is useful to try out new feature or to use a modern GnuPG if your system only provides the LTS version of GnuPG.
This AppImage is named /GnuPG Desktop®/ and should give you a similar experience as users of /Gpg4win/. In fact the source code is currently nearly identical. If you want to build your own version see the README in the source tarball and please take care to remove our trademarked name. Links can be found at https://gnupg.org or here: https://download.gnupg.com/files/gnupg/gnupg-desktop-2.3.8.0-x86_64.AppImage https://download.gnupg.com/files/gnupg/gnupg-desktop-2.3.8.0-x86_64.AppImage.sig Please download both files, make sure that the App9mage is executable ("chmod +x gnupg-desktop-2.3.8.0-x86_64.AppImage" if not), check the signature as usual or compare the sha1sum: 7651072d7cecedb38b55c533544507b73e770934 gnupg-desktop-2.3.8.0-x86_64.AppImage After that you may run it: ./gnupg-desktop-2.3.8.0-x86_64.AppImage will start the GUI ./gnupg-desktop-2.3.8.0-x86_64.AppImage -c will drop you in a shell where you can use this version of GnuPG on the command line, start the GUI by running "kleopatra", or use a mail client which then should pick up the new gpg. You may also use --help or --version. For closer inspection of what is running in the AppImage, give a "cd $APPDIR" and look around. There are certainly some inconsistencies like Gpg4win version numbers etc but, we will fix that over time. Note that the AppImage takes over any running gpg-agent but that should in general not be a problem because all gpg-agent's are upward compatible. If you need to start another AppImage while the first is still running, you may want to use the option --keep-socket. To detect whether you are running a GnuPG AppImage test for the environment variable "_gnupg_appimage". In case you want to use option which are only available in gnupg 2.3.8 you either need to use a separate GNUPGHOME like in GNUPGHOME=/home/foo/mygpg23 ./gnupg-desktop-2.3.8.0-x86_64.AppImage of you can use in all configuration files the meat option "ignore-invalid-option". For example ignore-invalid-option crazy-new-option another-new-option which won't error out of one of these options is used but not supported. If you are system installed version of gnupg is at lease 2.2.26 you may also use a construct like [if $_version -v3ge 2.3.8] no-user-trustlist [fi] If a GnuPG 2.3 version is already installed on your system and you want to have a different configuration for the AppImage you may use [getenv appimage _gnupg_appimage] [if $appimage] # Options for the Appimage [fi] in your configuration files. To see what configuration files are read you may invoke gpg with "--debug 0". Shalom-Salam, Werner -- The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service. - A. Einstein
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