[Wylug-help] gpg and EeePC

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 19:57:50 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2008 19:30:17 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Maybe I'm overtired, but I'm frustrated to hell and back with this.  I
> > thought that back in January I succeeded in getting gpg encryption
> > working on the EeePC, but I can't find any package in any of the 'safe'
> > repos I have installed.  I'm not having much success in googling, either,
> > so maybe I'm not using the best search terms.  I think I would be safe in
> > installing gpg and gpg-agent from debian etch, if only I could find them.
> >  Could someone please give me either a start url or some other pointer? 
> > Thanks
>
> Just after I sent it I found
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gpg&searchon=names&suite=stable&
>section=all
>
> gpgv is the included package on the EeePC.  I want both signing and
> encryption to work.  I could install gpgsm, though I'm not sure about that,
> and kgpg for the front-end, but I'm used to the basic package being gnupg. 
> Is gnome-gpg the equivalent?
>
Getting closer.  I think all that remains for me to install pinentry-qt.  
However, I'm seeing "Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (2) 
Unable to lock the download directory"

I thought that maybe there was a stale lock file but locate didn't find it.  
Help, please?

Anne


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