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Re: [LUG] gnupg and ubuntu 10.04

 

On 24/07/10 00:24, Eion MacDonald wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/07/2010 21:40, Paul Sutton wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I recently installed ubuntu 10.04 on a 2nd hard disk and have also
>> installed the password and encryption keys application
>>
>>
>> I have copied the contents of .gnupg over to the new installation
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 psutton psutton     63 2009-02-06 18:38 gpg.conf
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 psutton psutton 190032 2010-01-09 20:51 pubring.gpg
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 psutton psutton 190032 2010-01-09 20:51 pubring.gpg~
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 psutton psutton    600 2010-06-14 14:44 random_seed
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 psutton psutton   1320 2009-01-08 19:17 secring.gpg
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 psutton psutton   2120 2010-01-09 20:51 trustdb.gpg
>>
>>
>> this directory is located in /home/psutton
>>
>> how do I get to the point where I can right click on something and
>> encrypt / decrypt files and also sign e-mails as at present when i tried
>> i can't sign them. (using thunderbird and enigmail)
>>
>> there is a paul sutton.asc file which contains my public key.
>>
>> Do I need to import something in to password and encryption keys
>>
>>
>> thanks for any pointers.
>>
>> It would help if we can have talks on things like this at lug meets.
>>
>>
>> Paul
>>
> 
> Did you install enigmail from an Ubuntu distro or from the enigmail site.
> I find sometimes you need the version specific to the distro
> (At least that is so in SuSE)

I installed it from the repositories for 10.04

paul


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