"gpg not installed correctly"?

[sycam0r-e]

OS: macOS 12.5.1 (21G83) gpg: 2.3.7_1

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When starting GPGFrontend, I get the following warning:

Gnupg(gpg) is not installed correctly, please follow the ReadME instructions in Github to install Gnupg and then open GpgFrontend.

However, I do have the latest gpg installed via brew. Could it be a problem that I use brew on a non-admin account? On my system, brew is installed in /Users/user/homebrew/bin/gpg (where "user" is my non-admin user account). Note that I on purpose separate my admin and user account so making my user account admin is not an option.

How can this be solved?:)

[saturneric]

It may be a problem on libgpgme. Thanks for discovering this bug. I'll make a plan to work on it in two weeks.

[Sercurio]

Up, getting same error same installation of gnupgp via brew and gpgfrontend via the installer

[saturneric]

The work is still under way now. This might be an issue on gpgme.

[saturneric]

According to the gpgme‘s source code which I have read, can you execute "gpgconf" in the command line? If not, add "/Users/user/homebrew/bin/" in the PATH, everything might work.

[Robbepop]

I just encountered this bug. I tried to setup a new MacOS, installed homebrew and gpgfrontend via brew install --cask gpgfrontend but when starting gpgfrontned says "gnupg(gpg) seems to be installed incorrectly". Not sure what to do since the only thing it does is to recommend installing gpgfrontend exactly the way I did.

edit: I fixed the issue on my machine. The problem apparently was that gpgtools was not installed on my system. I had to install it manually since it is missing in brew for reasons that are unclear to me. I am very new to MacOs.

[hnykda]

Still an issue on latest Brew version and Mac OS X Ventura.

According to the gpgme‘s source code which I have read, can you execute "gpgconf" in the command line? If not, add "/Users/user/homebrew/bin/" in the PATH, everything might work.

I can execute it just fine, so it's not a path issue.

[Haarolean]

I have the same problem with the latest release downloaded from releases page

% which gpg
/opt/homebrew/bin/gpg

% which gpgconf
/opt/homebrew/bin/gpgconf

[saturneric]

In my MacBook, GnuPG binaries are installed by Homebrew at "/usr/local/bin/". This might be the key to the issue.

[Haarolean]

In my MacBook, GnuPG binaries are installed by Homebrew at "/usr/local/bin/". This might be the key to the issue.

It shouldn't, though. /usr is not a writable directory in newer MacOS versions anymore, that's why brew installs its packages into /opt. Anyway, gpg is present in my path but it still is not recognizable. Also, I tried adjusting the gpg path in settings, setting it to brew's bin directory, but it still doesn't work. Any way to debug this?

[saturneric]

In my MacBook, GnuPG binaries are installed by Homebrew at "/usr/local/bin/". This might be the key to the issue.

It shouldn't, though. /usr is not a writable directory in newer MacOS versions anymore, that's why brew installs its packages into /opt. Anyway, gpg is present in my path but it still is not recognizable. Also, I tried adjusting the gpg path in settings, setting it to brew's bin directory, but it still doesn't work. Any way to debug this?

When the Application starts, GpgME needs to find "gpgconf" in PATH, execute it and get the location of reset GnuPG's executables. If GpgME doesn't get any valid location, GpgFrontend will check out it and notice user that "gpg not installed correctly".

When you execute "gpgconf", it will output like the following (in my MacBook).

gpg:OpenPGP:/usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/bin/gpg
gpgsm:S/MIME:/usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/bin/gpgsm
keyboxd:Öffentliche Schlüssel:/usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/libexec/keyboxd
gpg-agent:Geheime Schlüssel:/usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/bin/gpg-agent
scdaemon:Smartcard:/usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/libexec/scdaemon
dirmngr:Netz:/usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/bin/dirmngr
pinentry:Passwort Eingabe:/usr/local/opt/pinentry/bin/pinentry

Can you check and paste the "gpgconf" output here?

[Haarolean]

Yes, please:

% gpgconf
gpg:OpenPGP:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.3.8/bin/gpg
gpgsm:S/MIME:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.3.8/bin/gpgsm
keyboxd:Public Keys:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.3.8/libexec/keyboxd
gpg-agent:Private Keys:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.3.8/bin/gpg-agent
scdaemon:Smartcards:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.3.8/libexec/scdaemon
dirmngr:Network:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.3.8/bin/dirmngr
pinentry:Passphrase Entry:/opt/homebrew/opt/pinentry/bin/pinentry

[hnykda]

Mine is (Macbook Air M2):

$ gpgconf
gpg:OpenPGP:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/bin/gpg
gpgsm:S/MIME:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/bin/gpgsm
keyboxd:Public Keys:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/libexec/keyboxd
gpg-agent:Private Keys:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/bin/gpg-agent
scdaemon:Smartcards:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/libexec/scdaemon
dirmngr:Network:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.4.0/bin/dirmngr
pinentry:Passphrase Entry:/opt/homebrew/opt/pinentry/bin/pinentry

[saturneric]

Guys, I can provide you with a BETA version which may solve this problem after you set the custom GnuPG path. Thought I cannot upgrade my MacBook sadly, can I have you help me to test this version? @hnykda @Haarolean

[hnykda]

I can try!

[saturneric]

I will upload the BETA version later.

When GpgFrontend can't find gpgconf, you can see this Dialog.

Click open and select a custom GnuPG path. For your MacBook, it may be /opt/homebrew/bin/.

[saturneric]

@hnykda, You can download it HERE.

[hnykda]

Seems to be working, thanks!

[Haarolean]

@saturneric can I get one as well? The link you shared has expired.

[saturneric]

@saturneric can I get one as well? The link you shared has expired.

Since v2.1.1 will not come very soon, I will make the share link longer for anyone who is in trouble.

Download it HERE.

[Haarolean]

@saturneric it works fine now, thank you very much for your work! ❤️