• dmr
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Topic: Firegpg can't find gpg

Hi,

I've installed gpg4win1.10 and firegpg. When I run firegpg I see several cmd.exe boxes flash by with errors about not being able to find the specified path, then I get a dialogue saying "Firegpg cannot access GPG. Please check that GPG is installed and the path specified is correct.". The default path in firegpg isn't the same as the default path GPG installs to (Windows 2000), but I changed it both in the options dialogue (first) and then in the about:config dialogue. I also set it back to the default and copied the gpg installation to the default path after creating it. I restarted Firefox after changing the path but still no joy.

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

Duncan

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

We know the first problem (default path), and for the second, I have a contact who found the solution to fix the problem, but he hasn't tell me yet, and he isn't online.

I will tell you when I know how fix this.

Regards,

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

OK, thanks for the quick response.

Duncan

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

I have the same problem, I've set the path to C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe both in Firegpg Options and verified it in about:config but I still get the error message that Firegpg can't find GpG ??  Help !

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Do you have install it ? See our website for a recent version...

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

I downloaded ver 0.4.1 and re-installed on June 10th

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

I speak about Gpg ^^.

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

I just installed the update to FireGPG and I'm still having the problem where it can't find GPG. I also reinstalled GPG.  Versions are FireGPG 0.4.1, GPG 1.4.7, Windows 2000 SP4. Thanks.

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Maybe your AntiVirus ? Do you have one ?

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

I use NOD32 from ESET. I unloaded it and restarted Firefox but it didn't solve the problem.

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

So... I don't know... Sorry.

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

OK, if you think of anything else please let me know.

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Hi, I'm having a similar problem. I use linux, gpg 1.4.7, firefox 2.0.0.4, and the lately svn build of fireGPG.

typing "gpg" from the command line brings me to the program, and "which gpg" produces "/usr/bin/gpg"... default placement. I have used both the download version and SVN version of fireGPG, but they all give me the same message:

Error: FireGPG cannot access GPG. Please check that GPG is installed and that the path specified in the options is correct.

After that comes up I can enter options and try and change the default location, but nothing produces results.

What exactly is it looking for that it can't find? Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Following worked for me:

conjure about:config

extensions.firegpg.specify_gpg_path  true (default false)
extensions.firegpg.gpg_path /usr/local/bin/gpg (your respective gpg location)

Seems that just setting the path doesn't do the trick, specify_gpg_path
must also be set.

Then restart firefox (and verify values in about:config), and you
should be good to go!

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Didn't do any good for me, I had already played around in about:config, and that "specify_gpg_path" key is the same as checking "Manually specificy gpg path" in the options box, which I had already done.

I'm pretty sure this is a bug of some sort.

Anyways, thanks for your reply, I appreciate any leads.

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Hmm, i have no possibility to use config dialog, since i use OSX...
When i was playing around with FireGPG, i noticed that under some
undefined circumstances gpg_path resets to default, 'gpg'.

Hope you get this resolved once and for all.

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

i'm having this same problem. I have gnuPG 1.1.2 installed (as part of PGP4Win). I've tried the about:config changes, everything in this thread, but no luck. Any new discoveries on this since the last person replied?

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Same error message here.

FireGPG 0.4.3
Firefox 2.0.0.6
Fedora Core 3
GnuPG 1.2.7 (/usr/bin/gpg)
GnuPG 2.0.4 (/usr/local/bin/gpg2)

Both GPG executables are in my path, can be called by simply typing gpg or gpg2 from the shell, and I've tried setting both of these manually in the FireGPG preferences, both by using the FireGPG GUI and about:config. The result is always the same, even after restarting Firefox and doublechecking the prefs that everything is set up properly:

Error: FireGPG cannot access GPG. Please check that GPG is installed and that the path specified in the options is correct.

Out of curiosity, are there any debug builds of FireGPG? I'd love to see what exactly it's trying to do that's triggering this error.

Cheers!

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

> Out of curiosity, are there any debug builds of FireGPG? I'd love to see what exactly it's trying to do that's triggering this error.

No sorry, we debug manaly with alerts in the code.

Can you send me the result of 

gpg --version

?

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

[rouben@einstein ~]$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.7
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

====================

[rouben@einstein ~]$ gpg2 --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.4
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, TIGER192, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

Thanks!

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Strange... and  

gpg--quiet --no-tty --no-verbose --status-fd 1 --armor --version

?

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

[rouben@einstein ~]$ gpg --quiet --no-tty --no-verbose --status-fd 1 --armor --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.7
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

==================

[rouben@einstein ~]$ gpg2 --quiet --no-tty --no-verbose --status-fd 1 --armor --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.4
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, TIGER192, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
[rouben@einstein ~]$

Maybe the --quiet option isn't working? The output seems to be very similar...

Last edited by rouben (2007-09-04 15:07:01)

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

No, it's work the output has to be similar....

We have to mkae... a version with debug... For the moment I can't help you, sorry.

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

No problem. Please let me know if I can help, I want to help.

Thank you!

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Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Hey I was wondering if there was any word yet on this error that a few of us are getting. I'd really love to get this fixed... I am hopeful every time I update FireGPG but nothing has worked so far. I, for one, have copied my .gnupg directory from old backups so that I could keep the same keychain, etc... did the other people with the same problem do that? I also have gpg and gpg2 installed like rouben and get almost identical output for all the commands he ran. Maybe I'm missing something in my gpg directory?:

$ ls .gnupg
private-keys-v1.d  pubring.gpg   random_seed  secring.gpg
gpg.conf     pubkey.asc         pubring.gpg~  revkey.asc   trustdb.gpg

And my gpg.conf file... just in case (with some comments cut out for size):

$ cat ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

# Uncomment the following option to get rid of the copyright notice

no-greeting

# If you have more than 1 secret key in your keyring, you may want to
# uncomment the following option and set your preferred keyid.

#default-key 621CC013

#default-recipient some-user-id
#default-recipient-self

#encrypt-to some-key-id



#no-force-v3-sigs

#no-escape-from-lines

# If you do not use the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) charset, you should tell
# GnuPG which is the native character set.  Please check the man page
# for supported character sets.  This character set is only used for
# metadata and not for the actual message which does not undergo any
# translation.  Note that future version of GnuPG will change to UTF-8
# as default character set.  In most cases this option is not required
# GnuPG is able to figure out the correct charset and use that.

charset utf-8

#group mynames = paige 0x12345678 joe patti

#lock-once

keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
#keyserver mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.nl.pgp.net
#keyserver ldap://keyserver.pgp.com

keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

# Display photo user IDs in key listings

# list-options show-photos

# Display photo user IDs when a signature from a key with a photo is
# verified

# verify-options show-photos


# Passphrase agent
#
# We support the old experimental passphrase agent protocol as well as
# the new Assuan based one (currently available in the "newpg" package
# at ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/aegypten/).  To make use of the agent,
# you have to run an agent as daemon and use the option
#
use-agent

# Try CERT, then PKA, then LDAP, then hkp://subkeys.net:
#auto-key-locate cert pka ldap hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

--

Anything I should try? As always, any help appreciated, and always willing to help.