Comments on: How do I use GNU Privacy Guard? http://www.opensourcehq.org/how-do-i-use-gnu-privacy-guard/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:04:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: edman274 http://www.opensourcehq.org/how-do-i-use-gnu-privacy-guard/comment-page-1/#comment-4519 edman274 Tue, 04 May 2010 16:12:55 +0000 http://www.opensourcehq.org/how-do-i-use-gnu-privacy-guard/#comment-4519 GPG.EXE won't run because it's a Windows program. Further, you can't just drop the file that needs to be executed in the FTP home folder because by default FTP users don't have the administrative access necessary to install stuff on the server. What you can do is get the program by installing the package through whatever system your distribution uses; yum for Redhat, apt-get for Ubuntu, etc. This appears to be the part where you run into trouble: "Note: If you are using Windows and your shopping cart is running on a UNIX machine, you will have to uncompress the -.tar.gz archive appropriately. If you need assistance obtaining the gnupg program, please contact PDG technical staff." GPG.EXE won’t run because it’s a Windows program. Further, you can’t just drop the file that needs to be executed in the FTP home folder because by default FTP users don’t have the administrative access necessary to install stuff on the server. What you can do is get the program by installing the package through whatever system your distribution uses; yum for Redhat, apt-get for Ubuntu, etc.

This appears to be the part where you run into trouble:

"Note: If you are using Windows and your shopping cart is running on a UNIX machine, you will have to uncompress the -.tar.gz archive appropriately. If you need assistance obtaining the gnupg program, please contact PDG technical staff."

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