I wasn't exactly methodical in my approach to resolve the issue but I
"think" what resolved my issue preventing me from generating keys was
following Stephan's suggestion of adding to .bashrc, which I had done
and was still getting the issue but tonight I added the lines to
.bashrc of root.
Or it
Peter Lebbing:
> On 23/11/16 11:14, Stephan Beck wrote:
>> [...] and properly symlink
>> /usr/bin/pinentry to the pinentry-curses you actually would like to use
>> if you are using text-mode only, I don't know why it should not work.
>
[...]So by installing the Debian pinentry-curses
> package,
On 23/11/16 07:44, David Adamson wrote:
> Werner was GTK+-2.0 a potential option for an appropriate development
> package for the GUI platform?
(I'm not Werner :) Yes, GTK+-2 is one of the pinentries. It's the one I
use, on my XFCE Debian jessie.
> gpg: lookup_hashtable failed: Unknown system err
On 23/11/16 11:14, Stephan Beck wrote:
> [...] and properly symlink
> /usr/bin/pinentry to the pinentry-curses you actually would like to use
> if you are using text-mode only, I don't know why it should not work.
Good one, the symlink. It makes me wonder: is the agent looking in the
right place f
Hi,
David Adamson:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Stephan Beck wrote:
>> Ah, I forgot one thing: you have to add the following to your ~/.bashrc
>> file:
>> GPG_TTY=$(tty)
>> export GPG_TTY
>>
>> Does it work now?
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Stephan
>
> Stephan I updated the .bashrc file in my home dire
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
>
>> configure: error: No pinentry enabled.
>
> You need to install the appropriate development package for the GUI
> platform.
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
>Werner
>
> --
> Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
Werner was GTK
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Stephan Beck wrote:
> Ah, I forgot one thing: you have to add the following to your ~/.bashrc
> file:
> GPG_TTY=$(tty)
> export GPG_TTY
>
> Does it work now?
>
> HTH
>
> Stephan
Stephan I updated the .bashrc file in my home directory, still got the
same error, so
Hi,
David Adamson:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Stephan Beck wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> David Adamson:
>>
>> If you only want to use the command line (i.e. text mode) and do not
>> need a GUI, you'll probably need the pinentry-curses package. Install it
>> by typing: sudo apt-get install pinentry
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Stephan Beck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Adamson:
>
> If you only want to use the command line (i.e. text mode) and do not
> need a GUI, you'll probably need the pinentry-curses package. Install it
> by typing: sudo apt-get install pinentry-curses
Thanks for the tip.
Hi,
David Adamson:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
>
>>> configure: error: No pinentry enabled.
>>
>> You need to install the appropriate development package for the GUI
>> platform.
>
> I looked for a GUI platform but had no idea what it's called where to
> find it and wh
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
>> configure: error: No pinentry enabled.
>
> You need to install the appropriate development package for the GUI
> platform.
I looked for a GUI platform but had no idea what it's called where to
find it and why I need a GUI if I plan on using
On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 21:51, davidadamson...@gmail.com said:
> *** The config script /usr/local/bin/gpg-error-config was
> *** built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and thus may not match the
> *** used host x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.
This warning is a bit unfortunate but it is harmless. Both platform
trip
Thanks Krzysztof. I did apt-get install pinentry-qt4 although it was
an older (0.8.3-2) version than what is on gnupg . org. It installed
without any errors but when I run gpg2 --gen-key I'm still getting:
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (t
Hello,
I'm running a debian Jessie v8 kernel release 3.16.0-4-amd64 on my
personal laptop. It came pre-installed with GnuPG 1.4.18.
I went to generate keys for myself by typing:
gpg2 --gen-key
But then during the process got this error:
gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
Key generation failed
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