gpg & kmail

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri May 23 2008, Nicholas Sushkin wrote:
> > You need gnupg2 package for KMail to support S/MIME.
>
> well, I found that you can change the path for gpg 1.4.9 using
> the ./configure --prefix=PATH. so I recompiled it with /usr/bin
> instead of the default /usr/local/bin. SO, gnupg installs by default
> to /usr/local/bin, per the INSTALL file:

Almost anything that you compile yourself is installed to /usr/local by 
default. /usr is reserved for installed packages. Installing 
self-compiled packages to /usr isn't the best idea because those 
self-compiled packages will be overwritten as soon as you install a 
pre-compiled version of the same package. OTOH, pre-compiled packages 
are never installed to /usr/local.

> yet, kmail was looking specifically for /usr/bin/gpg.

To be precise: gpgme was looking for /usr/bin/gpg (probably because 
that's were gpg was to be found when gpgme was built).


Regards,
Ingo
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