GPGME install requirements

[Werner Koch]

On Mon,  8 Oct 2012 01:07, roberto.c.aguilar at gmail.com said:

> I've done some cursory tests and confirm that if the binary gpg2 is
> not available GPGME does not work.  Does gpgme shell out to gpg2
> internally?

Sure.  GPGME delegates its actual work to a crypto engine, which is
gpgsm for S/MIME and gpg for OpenPGP.  GnuPG 2.x installs by default
under the name gpg2 and GPGME may or may not know about this - it
depends on how you built it (cf. configure option --with-gpg=NAME).


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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