Running Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) in Trisquel
I can't figure out how to encrypt files in Trisquel using the Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG). In Window$ you right-click on any file and chose Encrypt. That option is not available in Trisquel. It is sad that there is a good help website for the Win users, but an outdated fairly useless for the GNU users... Does anyone know how to encrypt files without having to do it in the terminal?
When in doubt, "man gpg". There are countless options, but for basic usage you can simply write "gpg file" to encrypt it and gpg -o file -d file.gpg to decrypt it.
On 02/10/13 07:04, lddimov wrote:
> I can't figure out how to encrypt files in Trisquel using the Gnu
> Privacy Guard (GPG). In Window$ you right-click on any file and chose
> Encrypt. That option is not available in Trisquel. It is sad that
> there is a good help website for the Win users, but an outdated
> fairly useless for the GNU users... Does anyone know how to encrypt
> files without having to do it in the terminal?
There are a few GUIs you can use on Trisquel. For example, I think the
"seahorse" package is quite popular, although I haven't used it myself.
If you're encrypting emails I recommend using Enigmail with Thunderbird,
or just using Evolution (OpenPGP support is built in by default).
Andrew.
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On 2013-10-01 17:04, name at domain wrote:
Install the following packages:
seahorse seahorse-nautilus
Restart nautilus from command line or logout + login:
sudo killall nautilus
Once installed you will have a new "Password and keys" application (it's
Seahorse) and two new options for files (right-click -> encrypt / sign).
Documentation for seahorse is here:
https://help.gnome.org/users/seahorse/stable/
You will also need to understand how to create / use OpenPGP keys with
GnuPG (via the Seahorse interface).
Cheers,
- - Fabian
- --
Fabián Rodríguez
http://fsf.magicfab.ca
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I had already imported my public and private keys and Seahorse was already installed, but righ-clicking on a file did not give the encrypt or sign option. However, running
sudo apt-get install seahorse seahorse-nautilus
as you suggested did the job - now I have that option when I right-click a file.
Thanks!
Back to my comment about installing and using GPG on M$Win vs Trisquel - it sucks that although GPG is Libre, it is many, many times easier to install and start using it on M$Win than in Trisquel. I got it installed and running on M$Win in minutes, but had to try for days and eventually relay on this forum to get it to work easily through GUI on Trisquel. I think that this type of issue is probably one of the major reasons why the average computer illeterate like me is slow to fully convert using only a libre OS like Trisquel...
I think that admission makes you the perfect person to write a howto on the subject. More seasoned users might not understand what the hard parts are. I agree that the documentation for GNU/Linux should be at least on par with other OSes.