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martvefun

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From: The Internets

Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 180

enigmail with gnupg2

Hello,

I'm trying to install the thunderbird extension enigmail.
I went to the doc page and read

In order to provide the crypto-features, Enigmail requires GnuPG to be installed. We recommend GnuPG version 2.x since it provides gpg-agent.

ok so

# pacman -S gnupg2

and after

Many Linux distributions ship with their own customized version of Thunderbird. If you use your distribution's version of Thunderbird, you must use your distribution's version of Enigmail.

so

$ yaourt -S engimail

but it ask me to install the package gnupg-1.4.10-2

I can't use the last version of gnupg ?

thank you

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English is not my native language, sorry for the mistakes
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Runiq

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 1,053

Re: enigmail with gnupg2

gnupg and gnupg2 are two ways to achieve the same - where gnupg is basically one big binary that has all functions, gnupg2 is more modular. Apart from that, they're functionally identical, I believe. If you want to use gnupg2 with enigmail, you'll probably have to build it yourself.

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martvefun

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Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 180

Re: enigmail with gnupg2

ok so it's maybe not worth it
go for gnupg1

thank you

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anrxc

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 835

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Re: enigmail with gnupg2

I can't use the last version of gnupg ?

You can use gnupg v1 with gpg-agent provided by v2.

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You need to install an RTFM interface.