Can't install on windows: "GPG not found"

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GPG plugin for Pidgin

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Can't install on windows: "GPG not found" #29

Open Albirew opened 6 years ago

Albirew commented 6 years ago

Well, as the title says, I can't install Pidgin-GPG 0.9 on my Windows 7 computer. Installer says

GPG not found could not install, see details for more information

GPG4Win is latest 3.0.0 installed on default location. I also tried to extract pidgin_gpg.dll from installer and manually copy it inside pidgin's plugins folder but Pidgin doesn't list it in plugins.

merlinnusr commented 6 years ago

I have the same problem

bc1bb commented 6 years ago

same but on windows10

lindoman commented 5 years ago

I managed to get this to work on Windows 10 - the Path environment variable needs to include the path to the gpg.exe file - in my case, this was C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuPG\bin

The installation file still does not work so...

as @Albirew says, the extracted pidgin_gpg.dll needs to be copied to the plugin folder, but this is your personal pidgin plugin folder (part of your Roaming profile) at

C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\.purple\plugins

Please note, AppData is a hidden folder and not usually visible by default. After doing these two steps, the plugin shows up in the plugins section of Pidgin.

ElGreckocherezreku commented 5 years ago

I've extracted *.dll file and put into my \AppData\Roaming.purple\plugins, in pidgin's plugins, the plugin has appeared, but settings of this file into pigin are not working, and plugin generally doesn't work. What to do? Help please. Plugin is 0.9 version.

lindoman commented 5 years ago

I tried again from scratch, and my installation worked fine. Just wondering... did you configure your own public / private key pair for your address using GPG? The following is all the configuration screen offers - it is a way to choose the key you want to use.

thetrik commented 3 years ago

To solve this problem you could create a registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE[Wow6432Node]\GNU\GnuPG\Install Directory with REG_SZ value which consists the path to GnuPG

ghost commented 3 years ago

the extracted pidgin_gpg.dll can you please share the dll? how did you extract it ?

lindoman commented 3 years ago

It's a long time ago, but as far as I remember the installation file can be treated like a zip file, try extracting using 7zip or similar?

ghost commented 3 years ago

Yes it worked with 7zip, but the dll don't work