installing gnupg-2.0.26

[Doug Barton]

On 8/26/14 2:33 PM, Philip Jackson wrote:
> On 26/08/14 15:55, Werner Koch wrote:
>>
>> If you want to build it yourself:
>>
>>    #
>>    # zlib
>>    #
>>    server http://zlib.net
>>
>>    # checked: 2014-06-20 ah
>>    file zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
>>    chk  a4d316c404ff54ca545ea71a27af7dbc29817088
>>
> Thanks Werner.  zlib now installed and gnupg 2.0.26 installed and seems to work
> but produces an error when asked to encrvypt or verfiy a file :
>
> gpg: invalid item `BZIP2' in preference string
> gpg: invalid default preferences
>
> When I compare the output of 'gpg --version' with the output of 'gpg2 --version'
> , the last line about compression shows that gpg2 does not have BZIP2.
>
> I suppose gnupg-1.4.16 and the new 2.0.26 share the same gpg.conf so I could
> remove BZIP2 from the gpg.conf file or perhaps better is to recompile 2.0.26
> with BZIP2.
>
> What do you recommend ?

bzip2 is pretty popular with Unix folks, FWIW

hope this helps,

Doug (!Werner) :)