help needed getting gnupg to function correctly in linux

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 18 June 2014 at 19:04:16, Philip Jackson wrote:
> It appears to me (in all my ignorance) that there is a problem connected
> with gpg-agent and PINentry.   The Synaptic Package Manager shows that I
> have gnupg-agent v.2.0.22-3ubuntu1 installed.

Check if you have a functional pinentry package installed.
It may come in an extra package, e.g. try to install 
pinentry-qt4

A simple test if pinentry works:

pinentry
OK Your orders please
getpin
D asdf
OK
bye
OK closing connection


Next check if your agent can do it.
  gpg-agent

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