upgrading v1 to v2

[Mirimir]

On 03/25/2015 08:39 PM, Dave Kimble wrote:
> Ubuntu 14.04 with gnupg 1.4.16 installed from Ubuntu repository.
> Enigmail says it is about time I upgraded to gnupg v2.
> Ubuntu Software Centre says I have the latest version.

In Ubuntu 12.04 x64, I just did:

$ sudo apt-get install gnupg2

That gave me "gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.17".

Then I went to "Enigmail Preferences | Basic", and made sure that GnuPG
was pointed at "/usr/bin/gpg2".

> I have git cloned gnupg ?v2.0.26? and attempted to configure.
> It says I need libgpg-error, libgcrypt, libassuan, libksba, npth
> 
> I have installed libgpg-error-1.9 , apparently OK.
> I can see /usr/lib/bin/libgpg-error and /libgpg-error-config
> 
> When I try to configure libgcrypt-1.6.3 it says:
> checking for gpg-error-config... /usr/local/bin/gpg-error-config
> checking for GPG Error - version >= 1.11... no
> configure: error: libgpg-error is needed.
> 
> Obviously I am doing something wrong, so its my fault, but this is
> ABSOLUTELY HOPELESS if you want people to adopt gnupg.  I work with
> clients who don't know what an email client is, let alone what theirs is
> called, on a wide variety of OSs.  They cannot possibly do this all
> this.  Is it too much to ask that you produce an Ubuntu-friendly
> repository that takes care of all the dependencies and compiling?
> 
> Rant over, please help.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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