Gnugpg

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

C Hamel wrote:

>On Tuesday 2006 January 31 18:40, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
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>>C Hamel wrote:
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>>>How is it that GPGME was compiled w/o backend support??  Is no ubuntu user
>>>interested in encryption/signing?  I think that is highly unlikely so
>>>would appreciate, once more, someone's solution.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
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>>Is your Ubuntu installation completely up-to-date?  I had the same
>>problem before I updated.
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>>aptitude update
>>aptitude dist-upgrade
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>>--
>>Brant Fitzsimmons
>>brant at bfcomputerconsulting.com
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>I was afraid you were going to ask that...!  The answer is an unqualified 
>'No!'  The emphasis comes from the fact that, aside from Mandrake 9, every 
>last distro I upgraded --read, SuSE 8.2, 9 Pro, 9.1, 9.2, Gentoo-- all were 
>virtually unusable post-updating.  Lots of stuff broke and I finally gave up 
>trying to fix what was not broken before I started doing the updates.  ...And 
>that update process took place before I did any customizing.  Consequently, 
>I'm loathe to break an otherwise-working distro.
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Unfortunately it will not work without an update.  It was a known
problem when breezy was released that was fixed a week or so later.

-- 
Brant Fitzsimmons
brant at bfcomputerconsulting.com