slackpkg gpg problems
 

I have gnupg installed, yet slackpkg always claims it cannot be found and thus gpg verification fails on packages.

Do I have to do anything special to get slackpkg to use gnupg?


I have tried reinstalling/updating from solutions in other threads, but they did not work for me.

Did you set your mirror and run

Yes, I did this and it made no differece.

have you set the correct mirrors?

yes

What is the output of 'ls /var/log/packages/gnupg*' ?

Perhaps try another mirror

Kind regards

gnupg2-2.0.14-x86_64-2 is installed, I have tried several different mirrors.

Did you try reinstalling slackpkg?

Tried that and also did slackpkg update, it still complains.

Check that your time and date are correct.

Also make sure you don't have a slackpkg.conf.new that might need putting in it's correct place.

Time and date are correct, already moved the .new file.

Is slackpkg pointing towards a 64 bit mirror?

There is also a gnupg-1.4.10

You should have that installed too.

Yes, pointing towards the correct mirror.


Why do I need both versions of gnupg. Is that not redundant?

No because /usr/bin/gpg is supplied by version 1. Version 2 supplies /usr/bin/gpgv2

OK, so installing gnupg 1.4 works without needing the later version.

Why are there two seemingly stable versions in the repo?

Different apps use different versions. See GTK and GTK-2.

installing 1.4.10 seems to remove the error but sbopkg still complains about gpg verification failing

I guess I can uninstall gnupg2 2.0.14 now?

I recommend that you keep gpg2. Newer software uses it anyway. It is designed to coexist with the old version.

sbopkg or slackpkg? What's the error? What gpg sig is being verified (i.e., what package(s) is it failing on)? Some errors indicate a problem but some errors just mean everything's working correctly on your end and something's wrong with the thing being verified.

(BTW, if you want to know why two gpgs and which or both of them, the manuals tell you.)