Removing all installed versions of GNUPG

[Barry Smith]

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Hello, Giangios.

| 3 installations of GNUPG.

I would follow the following procedure --
1) I would carefully and politely (aka, politically)
~   research why there are three gpg's installed on
~   the server.

2) Then I would update the "correctly" "standardly"
~   installed version of gpg.

3) Then I would politely send out an email/memo to all
~   parties involved in the non-standard copies of gpg,
~   and inform them that
~      "The latest version of gpg has been installed
~       on the server in [the standard library].
~       Please contact [someone] about using the
~       latest version of gpg.  This change will
~       happen on end of day Friday [2008/05/23]."
~   Please, use all of the politeness that you can in
~   this email/memo, because you want the users to
~   contact you voluntarily to make sure that they
~   are using the correct gpg.

4) Cron a script to run on [2008/08/23] to delete
~   the two wrong gpg directories.

Optionally --
5) In the cron'd script, create symbolic links from
~   the old directories to the new directories.

Sidebar tech ref guidance --
~   Copied from a web page --
~   > ln -s [TARGET DIRECTORY OR FILE] ./[SHORTCUT]
~   >
~   > For example:
~   >
~   > ln -s /usr/local/apache/logs ./logs
~   >
~   > This points a symbolic link "./logs" to "/usr/local/apache/logs"

~   Symbolic links in some of the "Unices" can have their own overhead
~   (OS is picky about doing "rm -r" when a Symbolic link is
~   encountered).  On the "Unices", Symbolic Links work super effectively
~   for program execution, and data access.


As everyone is probably aware (probably), on the
"Unices," all individual keyrings are stored in
a ".gpg" directory under each user's "/home/[user]/"
directory.  I point that out so that I can point
out the central point... that updating a central
version of gpg should be invisibly impactless to
any and all users, once they correct the use of
the different/alternate/deleted versions of gpg.

Further comment --
I ran across a similar problem in Windows.
1) One was needed by Cygwin (Linux under Windows),
2) one was needed by my email program (Thunderbird), and
3) one was needed by a GPG file toolpack (GPG4Win)
that I use regularly.

I determined that it would be easier to
- -- do the installation into the default location (which is
~   where the GPG4Windows looks), and then
- -- Do the installation again into the location that my email
~   program looked for GPG, and lastly
- -- build the gpg for Cygwin from source.

Technical
Yes, during my efforts, I found out that there is a Windows
Environment variable (as well as a cygwin/"Unices" alias) that
can be set for GPG to look in one location for the executables...
not PATH, but another one, something like gpgpath... the gpg
docs are really written from a Unix/Linux perspective, and
should cover this in perfect detail for your Linux-viewpoint.

Best of Luck.

Let me know off-list if there is anything else that you want
to ask me directly about this task.

Peace,

Barry Smith




giangios wrote:
| Hi to evrybody,
|
| I am not very familiar with linux and I have found out that GNUPG was
| installed more than once on the server. There was already a
preinstalled one
| and trying to install and configure the last version I have realized
that I
| have now 3 installations of GNUPG.
|
| How can I remove all the installations?
|
| Shall I go to the build directory and type 'make uninstall'?
|
| This would work in the 2 I have installed (maybe), but what concerning the
| preinstalled version.
|
| Could somebody explain me how to remove all the installations?
|
| Thanks


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