use text pinentry in the console

[john doe]

On 2/22/2022 5:28 PM, Fourhundred Thecat via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I type a gpg command in the terminal, such as:
>
>    gpg -c foo
>
> the GUI pinentry dialog pops up to ask for password (I guess its
> pinentry-gtk-2)
>
> How can I confugure so that the ncurses (text based) dialog is used
> instead ?
>
> I am using gpg 2.2.12 on Debian 10
>

On Debian you need to use:

$ update-alternatives --config pinentry

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John Doe