installing gpg on Mandriva 2009

[Chris]

On Friday 02 January 2009 22:51:06 Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > [root at localhost ~]# gpg-agent
> > gpg-agent[24043]: can't connect to `/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such
> > file or directory
> > gpg-agent: no gpg-agent running in this session
>
> I have no answer for you -- I don't use GnuPG 2.0 -- but it is _very_
> _very_ _important_ that you not use 'root' as your regular user.
>
> UNIX has a lot of safeguards to keep you safe from malware on the
> internet.  However, when you run as root, many of these safeguards vanish.
I get the same run as user, I'd forgot to put that in:

[chris at localhost ~]$ gpg-agent
gpg-agent[27605]: can't connect to `/home/chris/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such 
file or directory
gpg-agent: no gpg-agent running in this session
gpg-agent: secmem usage: 0/32768 bytes in 0 blocks