A version of GNU Privacy Guard is available for Mac OS X systems from Mac GNU Privacy Guard. A .zip file, MacGPG2-2.0.14RC2.zip, can be downloaded from Mac GNU Privacy Guard v2.x Files.
To install the software, once you've downloaded it, unzip
the contents of the zip file, which you can do from a shell
prompt with the unzip command. Then use the
Finder to locate the .mpkg file that was extracted
from the .zip file. Double-click on it to start the MacGPG2
Installer.
Click on Continue to continue with the installation.
The next step will be to view the Read Me
information, followed by the display of the GNU General Public
License Version 3, which covers the use of the software.
After agreeing to the license, you will be informed of the
amount of space that will be used by the software, which is
21.6 MB for version 2.0.14RC2. When you proceed with the
installation, the gpg executable will be installed in
/usr/local/bin.
You can see other files installed during the installation
with lsbom -fls
/Library/Receipts/macgpg2.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom.
$ lsbom -fls /Library/Receipts/macgpg2.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom ./Applications/start-gpg-agent.app/Contents/Info.plist ./Applications/start-gpg-agent.app/Contents/MacOS/applet ./Applications/start-gpg-agent.app/Contents/PkgInfo ./Applications/start-gpg-agent.app/Contents/Resources/._applet.icns ./Applications/start-gpg-agent.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/._main .scpt ./Applications/start-gpg-agent.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/main.s cpt ./Applications/start-gpg-agent.app/Contents/Resources/applet.icns ./Applications/start-gpg-agent.app/Contents/Resources/applet.rsrc ./Applications/start-gpg-agent.app/Contents/Resources/description.rt fd/TXT.rtf ./Library/LaunchAgents/com.sourceforge.macgpg2.gpg-agent.plist ./private/etc/paths.d/MacGPG2 ./usr/local/sbin/MacGPG2-login.sh ./usr/local/sbin/MacGPG2-logout.sh
Your keyrings, such as
pubring.gpg, will be installed in
/Users/acctname/.gnupg/. where
acctname represents the particular account
you are using. If you have keyrings already on another system,
you can copy those keyrings to that location. I.e., you can
copy pubring.gpg, secring.gpg, and
trustdb.gpg from the other system. You can see
what keys are in your public keyring with gpg
--list-keys.
References:
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GNU Privacy Guard
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
Mac GNU Privacy Guard
SourceForge -
Uninstall applications installed from packages
Date: January 11, 2010
By: oblahdioblidaa
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