Trying to install gpg2 on win10. Followed bottom answer on this thread; how to install gpg on cygwin? currently it's missing
but got a problem when trying to soft linking them;
I have "the right" version when checking the new download;
$ /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/GnuPG/bin/gpg.exe --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.21 libgcrypt 1.7.6 Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later < This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: C:/Users/xxxxxxxxx/AppData/Roaming/gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 And the old version is;
$ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.20 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later < This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: ~/.gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 Having liked both;
$ ln -s /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/GnuPG/bin/gpg.exe /usr/bin/gpg2 ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/bin/gpg2': File exists $ ln -s /c/Program\ Files\ \(x64\)/GnuPG/bin/gpg-agent.exe /usr/bin/gpg-agent ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/bin/gpg-agent': File exists I don't get why I get this message;
$ gpg2 C:/msys64/usr/bin/gpg2: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I am doing this because of;
$ \curl -sSL | bash -s stable ERROR: Could not find GNU compatible version of 'tar' command, make sure it's available first before continuing installation. If there is any other way around this to get RVM installed, I'll be happy to know
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I'm trying to install gpg2 on win10
There is no need to install gpg2 using the complicated instructions in the link you have provided.
The gpg2 package is available through the normal Cygwin installer. If you install it using this it will be correctly configured.
Run the install program
Continue until you get to the "Select Packages" screen
Set the "View" to "Full"
Set "Search" to "gnupg2"
Click the first "Skip" (it will change to the version number 2.1.21-1)
Click "Next" to install
As reported by David, GNU Privacy Guard version 2 is available on Cygwin
The two versions coexist in parallel.
