Installation - Using the GNU Privacy Guard
Description: Using the GNU Privacy Guard

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## 1 A short installation guide.

Unfortunately the installation guide has not been finished in time. Instead of delaying the release of GnuPG 2.0 even further, I decided to release without that guide. The chapter on gpg-agent and gpgsm do include brief information on how to set up the whole thing. Please watch the GnuPG website for updates of the documentation. In the meantime you may search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the gnupg-users mailing listsfor advise on how to solve problems or how to get that whole thing up and running.

** Building the software

Building the software is decribed in the file `INSTALL`. Given that you are already reading this documentation we can only give some extra hints

To comply with the rules on GNU systems you should have build time configured `dirmngr` using:

         ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var

This is to make sure that system wide configuration files are searched in the directory `/etc/gnupg` and variable data below `/var`; the default would be to also install them below `/usr/local` where the binaries get installed. If you selected to use the `--prefix=/` you obviously don't need those option as they are the default then.

** Explain how to setup a root CA key as trusted

Such questions may also help to write a proper installation guide.

[to be written]

XXX Tell how to setup the system, install certificates, how dirmngr relates to GnuPG etc.

** Explain how to setup a root CA key as trusted

X.509 is based on a hierarchical key infrastructure. At the root of the tree a trusted anchor (root certificate) is required. There are usually no other means of verifying whether this root certificate is trustworthy than looking it up in a list. GnuPG uses a file (`trustlist.txt`) to keep track of all root certificates it knows about. There are 3 ways to get certificates into this list:

- Use the list which comes with GnuPG. However this list only contains a few root certificates. Most installations will need more.
- Let `gpgsm` ask you whether you want to insert a new root certificate. To enable this feature you need to set the option `allow-mark-trusted` into `gpg-agent.conf`. In general it is not a good idea to do it this way. Checking whether a root certificate is really trustworthy requires decisions, which casual users are not up to. Thus, by default this option is not enabled.
- Manually maintain the list of trusted root certificates. For a multi user installation this can be done once for all users on a machine. Specific changes on a per-user base are also possible.

XXX decribe how to maintain trustlist.txt and /etc/gnupg/trustlist.txt.

** How to get the ssh support running

XXX How to use the ssh support.

### 1.1 Installation Overview

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