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author Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de>
date Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:04:33 +0100
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9 After hours of pointless poking around I found the culprit: gpg is trying to request passphrases via `/usr/bin/pinentry` but I did not even have a pinentry package installed. 9 After hours of pointless poking around I found the culprit: gpg is trying to request passphrases via `/usr/bin/pinentry` but I did not even have a pinentry package installed.
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11 So as a hint for anyone who may stuble over the same problem as I did: 11 So as a hint for anyone who may stuble over the same problem as I did:
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13 :::shell
13 emerge app-crypt/pinentry 14 emerge app-crypt/pinentry
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15 and dont' forget to enable one of the GUI keywords e.g. `gtk` or `qt`. To make sure that the pinentry link points to the correct binary run 16 and dont' forget to enable one of the GUI keywords e.g. `gtk` or `qt`. To make sure that the pinentry link points to the correct binary run
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18 :::shell
17 eselect pinentry list 19 eselect pinentry list
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19 and select the correct variant. 21 and select the correct variant.
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21 Enjoy sending gpg secured mails! 23 Enjoy sending gpg secured mails!