gpg2 / gpg-agent passphrase prompt

ASSI Stromeko@nexgo.de
Fri Jan 24 17:00:24 GMT 2025


ASSI via Cygwin writes:
> Turns out that the (fresh) installation of Cygwin on this machine which
> has exactly the same package selection was hosed up by a different
> package installation order:  Some time ago the GnuPG2 package was
> changed to replace /usr/bin/gpg (and gpg2 is now a symlink to that), but
> of course the old gpg package installs it's own executable in exactly
> the same place.  Guess which package was installed last… :-)

Further, the reason it attempts to install both versions is that wget
(and wget2) pull in libgpgme11, which in turn wants gnupg.  Given that
gnupg v1 is dead as a dodo on Cygwin that doesn't look right…


Regards,
Achim.
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