Fresh OS installation

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Hi,


it worked fine, altough i got this message on the terminal: 

process at process ~ $ tar cf gnupg-backup.tar .gnupg/
tar: .gnupg/S.gpg-agent: socket ignored

Is this important?


Greetings!


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> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:34:19 +0100
> From: unknown <tokktokk at riseup.net>
> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Fresh OS installation
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> Hi,
>
> I'd like to make a fresh linux installation.
> What is the best way to use my keys and settings I've already configured 
> on my old OS? Do I back things up, or make a copy from the config. file?
> I've just started using Gnupg (and Linux).
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:28:28 -0500
> From: "Robert J. Hansen" <rjh at sixdemonbag.org>
> To: <gnupg-users at gnupg.org>
> Subject: RE: Fresh OS installation
> Message-ID: <020001d24119$8a7d6ff0$9f784fd0$@sixdemonbag.org>
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>> What is the best way to use my keys and settings I've already configured
> on
>> my old OS? Do I back things up, or make a copy from the config. file?
> Good question: there really isn't a good, standardized way to do this.
> There are three different branches of GnuPG that are in common use (1.4,
> 2.0, 2.1), and it's possible that your old keys were set up on 1.4, your new
> machine will be a 2.1 install, and so on.
>
> The easiest way will not necessarily be the best way.  It will probably be
> good enough for your purposes.
>
> On your old machine:
>
> 	$ cd ~
> 	$ tar cf gnupg-backup.tar .gnupg/
>
> Copy the tarfile to your new installation.  Place it in your home directory.
> Then, on your new machine:
>
> 	$ cd ~
> 	$ rm -rf .gnupg
> 	$ tar xf ./gnupg-backup.tar
> 	$ rm -f .gnupg/random_seed
> 	$ gpg --list-secret-keys
> 	$ gpg --list-keys
>
> If you can list your secret keys and public keys OK, then you're probably
> good to go.  Let us know if you have any problems.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:22:09 +0100
> From: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
> To: Lukas Tr?binger <lukas.troebinger at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: gpg4win HKPS in gpg.conf correct slash
> Message-ID: <87lgwhqmla.fsf at wheatstone.g10code.de>
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> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:25, lukas.troebinger at gmail.com said:
>
>> ca-cert-file=/path/to/CA/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem". In Windows, what is the
>> correct slash to use?
>> Is it / or \?
> Windows officially supports a forward slash in its core APIs but not in
> the shell.  We do not use the shell and thus the use of a forward slash
> in GnuPG configuration files is okay.
>
>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
>    Werner
>