baffled at "Chapter 1. Getting Started" due to gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2024-07-20 Dennis Clarke via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
> Looking at https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html one would get
> the idea that GPG would "just work" given that pinentry is right there

> oberon$ which pinentry
> /usr/local/bin/pinentry
[...]

Hello,

afaik gnupg does not search for the helpers on PATH, their location is
built into the binary, running gpgconf should show where it is looking.

cu Andreas