Thanks for this, I had the same problem this weekend and created .gnupg which did appear to solve the problem - I thought at the time that it was a clunky old hack that would cause trouble later but I'm more confident now. Wondering if this will get through to the list as I'm stuck on a proprietary OS box at work (now there's a clunky old hack for you)
tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Freedman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The question focused on the fact that installation wouldn't > successfully proceed unless the .gnupg directory was created by hand. > I ran into the same problem using GnuPG 1.0.4 (the question stated > that it had worked previously, and I'd guess that this would have been > with an earlier version) when I tried to run 'gpg --key-gen' after > initial installation. In talking to the people upstream on the GnuPG > mailing list, they seemed to acknowledge (if my memory serves) that > this was a known issue, and the temporary solution was just to > manually create '.gnupg' and everything would be fine. Hope this helps. >