Perfect, that's useful. I see now I should copy the man pages to /usr/local/man so they'll be visible to everyone. Also, to be save, I'll rename the existing binaries just in case (I'm a bit paranoid).
To recap, I'll run these commands to "install" my new version: mv /usr/local/bin/gpg /usr/local/bin/gpg_old mv /usr/local/bin/gpgsplit /usr/local/bin/gpgsplit_old mv /usr/local/bin/gpgv /usr/local/bin/gpgv_old ln -s /opt/app/apps/gnupg-1.4.11/bin/gpg /usr/local/bin/gpg ln -s /opt/app/apps/gnupg-1.4.11/bin/gpg-zip /usr/local/bin/gpg-zip ln -s /opt/app/apps/gnupg-1.4.11/bin/gpgsplit /usr/local/bin/gpgsplit ln -s /opt/app/apps/gnupg-1.4.11/bin/gpgv /usr/local/bin/gpgv cp /opt/app/apps/gnupg-1.4.11/share/man/man1/* /usr/local/man/man1 cp /opt/app/apps/gnupg-1.4.11/share/man/man7/* /usr/local/man/man7 Thanks so much! The whole thing was much easier than I anticipated, Bob -----Original Message----- From: Robert J. Hansen [mailto:r...@sixdemonbag.org] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 6:17 AM To: DUELL, BOB (ATTCINW) Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Installing new version of gpg On 5/25/2011 12:55 PM, DUELL, BOB (ATTCINW) wrote: > A few more questions: It's hard to give concrete answers without seeing your particular installation, so please consider these to be semi-educated guesses rather than things I know to be correct. :) > But should I also create these? No. You never launch these directly: GnuPG launches them -- and GnuPG knows where they're located. > And what about these existing files (copies of which are in > /usr/local today): Well, the GnuPG you have in /usr/local no longer needs them -- but it's possible other software you have in /usr/local relies on it, so I'd suggest keeping them until/unless you know for a fact nothing else needs it. > And finally, what about these (which do not exist in /usr/local/share > today): Don't need to worry about them. I'd keep them, myself, but if you delete them it won't impair GnuPG's functioning. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users