GnuPG-2.0.21
Introduction to GnuPG 2
The GnuPG 2 package is GNU's tool
for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to
encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an
advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed
OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME
standard as described by several RFCs. GnuPG 2 is the stable
version of GnuPG integrating support for OpenPGP and S/MIME. It
does not conflict with an installed GnuPG-1.4.14 OpenPGP-only
version.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4
platform.
Package Information
GnuPG 2 Dependencies
Required
Pth-2.0.7, Libassuan-2.1.1, libgcrypt-1.5.3, and Libksba-1.3.0
Recommended
PIN-Entry-0.8.3 (Run-time requirement for
most of the package's functionality)
Optional
OpenLDAP-2.4.36, libusb-compat-0.1.5, cURL-7.32.0,
GNU adns, and an
MTA
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnupg2
Installation of GnuPG 2
Install GnuPG 2 by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnupg2 \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.0.21 &&
make &&
makeinfo --html --no-split -o doc/gnupg_nochunks.html doc/gnupg.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/gnupg.txt doc/gnupg.texi
If you have texlive-20130530 installed and you wish to
create documentation in alternate formats, issue the following
commands:
make -C doc pdf ps html
To test the results, issue: make
check.
Note that if you have already installed GnuPG, the instructions below will overwrite
/usr/share/man/man1/gpg-zip.1. Now,
as the root user:
make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.0.21/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/gnupg_nochunks.html \
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.0.21/gnupg.html &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.texi doc/gnupg.txt \
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.0.21
If you created alternate formats of the documentation, install it
using the following command as the root user:
install -v -m644 doc/gnupg.html/* \
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.0.21/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/gnupg.{pdf,dvi,ps} \
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.0.21
Command Explanations
--libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnupg2: This
switch creates a gnupg directory in
/usr/lib instead of /usr/libexec.
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.0.21:
This switch changes the default docdir to /usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.0.21.
--enable-symcryptrun: This
switch enables building the symcryptrun program.
Contents
Installed Programs:
addgnupghome, applygnupgdefaults,
gpg-agent, gpg-connect-agent, gpg2, gpgconf, gpgkey2ssh,
gpgparsemail, gpgsm, gpgsm-gencert.sh, gpgv2, kbxutil,
scdaemon, symcryptrun, and watchgnupg
Installed Libraries:
None
Installed Directories:
/usr/lib/gnupg2, /usr/share/gnupg and
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.0.21
Short Descriptions
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addgnupghome
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is used to create and populate user's ~/.gnupg directories
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applygnupgdefaults
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is a wrapper script used to run gpgconf with the
--apply-defaults
parameter on all user's GnuPG home directories.
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gpg-agent
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is a daemon used to manage secret (private) keys
independently from any protocol. It is used as a backend
for gpg and
gpgsm as
well as for a couple of other utilities.
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gpg-connect-agent
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is a utility used to communicate with a running
gpg-agent.
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gpg2
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is the OpenPGP part of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It
is a tool used to provide digital encryption and signing
services using the OpenPGP standard.
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gpgconf
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is a utility used to automatically and reasonable safely
query and modify configuration files in the ~/.gnupg home directory. It is designed
not to be invoked manually by the user, but automatically
by graphical user interfaces.
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gpgparsemail
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is a utility currently only useful for debugging. Run it
with --help for
usage information.
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gpgsm
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is a tool similar to gpg used to provide
digital encryption and signing services on X.509
certificates and the CMS protocol. It is mainly used as a
backend for S/MIME mail processing.
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gpgsm-gencert.sh
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is a simple tool used to interactively generate a
certificate request which will be printed to stdout.
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gpgv2
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is a verify only version of gpg2.
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kbxutil
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is used to list, export and import Keybox data.
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scdaemon
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is a daemon used to manage smartcards. It is usually
invoked by gpg-agent and in
general not used directly.
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symcryptrun
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is a simple symmetric encryption tool.
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watchgnupg
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is used to listen to a Unix Domain socket created by any
of the GnuPG tools.
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Last updated on 2013-09-05 10:04:34 -0700