installing gpg on Mandriva 2009

[Chris]

On Friday 02 January 2009 23:06:29 Simon Dwyer wrote:
> - gpg control packet
>
> Chris wrote:
> > On Friday 02 January 2009 20:39:04 Chris wrote:
> >> I've updated my Mandrake 10.1 box to 2009. On the 10.1 system gpg and
> >> gpg-agent were working smoothly.  I installed gnupg-2.0.9 from source
> >> and copied my old .conf files over to the .gnupg folder. I also
> >> installed kgpg. When trying to add my key in Kmail to Identies >
> >> Cryptography >OpenPGP Signing key the "fetching keys" bar continues to
> >> scroll back and forth without fetching anything. My key is on the key
> >> servers. My key is entered in the OpenPGP encryption key block already. 
> >> I had this working correctly in 10.1 but it won't work now. I must be
> >> missing something. I have all the required libraries installed as well
> >> as pinentry-qt.  Any advice would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >
> > One other note on the above, gpg-agent appears not to be running at least
> > that's what Kmail says when it starts. Trying to run from the cli gives
> > me:
> >
> > [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
> >
> >
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> Just so you know i had the same problem on a debian box i used to make
> my keys on yesterday... so there must be something out there.

And it works fine in T-Bird with the Enigmail plugin, asks for passphrase just 
as it should.