Removing all installed versions of GNUPG

[giangios]

Thanks to everybody for help and suggestions.

At the end I have installed checkinstall, removed all the previous
installations of GNUPG and used checkinstall for making the last version
available in the system.

The server where I had this problem is used just by me, so I had no critical
points to handle with other users.

Giangios


Barry Smith-4 wrote:
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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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