On Sat May 24 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I do not understand your confidence. What do you mean "works". Just > because it did not fail, it does not mean it worked right.
that is a distinct possibility. > > When you --prefix=/usr/bin , you already over wrote into non /usr/local > lcation which is system file location. Just do not do this. there was no /usr/bin/gpg, so I didn't overwrite anything. I did a: ls /usr/bin/gpg* /usr/local/bin/gpg* and compared. there was nothing in /usr/bin > > I am not user of checkinstall and so I may be wrong on minor details on > its use but overwriting system file like you did is sure call for > trouble. nothing to overwrite. > > Checkinstall does not protect system from such brutal act. Checkinstall > is designed to install everything under one directory in /usr/local (or > possibly under /opt) and remove them cleanly later. when I did the ./configure & checkinstall for gnupg 1.4.9 with the defaults, kmail complained that /usr/bin/gpg was not installed correctly or was missing. when I did the ./configure --prefic=/usr/bin kmail no longer complains and I can now sign messages in kmail. Explain to me why my logic is faulty and what I did was wrong. I did not overwrite any files, I was not able to run apt-get install gnupg ( not found). > > With checkinstall, I expects --prefix=/usr/local/gnupg or > --prefix=/opt/gnupg to be used. (Please read the manual.) I wasn't looking for /usr/local/gnupg I was looking for a package that would install /usr/bin/gpg . Lets step back here a minute and look at what we have. I am a stupid user, trying to get away from windows. I installed Debian, use kmail, and I want to sign messages using gpg/pgp/gnupg, whatever the H&LL will work. This is not an intuitive process, trying synaptic was futile, and I went to the only place that seemed logical, source packages. You are giving me grief because i don't understand why kmail is complaining , and I found a way to make it work. So far no one else has given me a better solution that has worked. I don't want to read a bunch of manuals, I want to select a package from Synaptic, install it, and have it work. apt-get install gnupg says there is no package., so I go to source. Should I have come here first and asked why I couldn't find a package? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
