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I downloaded the latest stable tarball from https://www.gnupg.org/download/ and extracted it to a folder on my ubuntu machine. I had to chmod 775 configure in order to be able to run it, then I ran ./configure

I got this message right at the end:

    GnuPG v2.0.29 has been configured as follows:


    Revision:  120fc69  (4623)
    Platform:  GNU/Linux (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)


    OpenPGP:   yes
    S/MIME:    yes
    Agent:     yes 
    Smartcard: yes (without internal CCID driver)
    Gpgtar:    no


    Protect tool:      (default)
    Default agent:     (default)
    Default pinentry:  (default)
    Default scdaemon:  (default)
    Default dirmngr:   (default)


    Warning: Mismatches between the target platform and the
             to be used libraries have been detected for:
               libgpg-error libgcrypt
             Please check above for more warning messages.

I tried to run a sudo apt-get install libgpg-error libgcrypt but it said they couldn't be found, so I tried libgpg-error-dev libgcrypt-dev and got this:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
libgpg-error-dev is already the newest version.
libgcrypt11-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 69 not upgraded.

So I tried to run make and this is what I saw at the very end

Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
srcdir=. GNUPGHOME=`/bin/pwd` GPG_AGENT_INFO= LC_ALL=C GPGSM=../sm/gpgsm ./runtest ./inittests
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new'
/bin/bash: ./runtest: permission denied
make[3]: *** [inittests.stamp] Error 126
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
srcdir=. GNUPGHOME=`/bin/pwd` GPG_AGENT_INFO= LC_ALL=C GPGSM=../sm/gpgsm ./runtest ./inittests
/bin/bash: ./runtest: Permission denied
make[3]: *** [inittests.stamp] Error 126
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I then ran make install and got the same error at the end. What is going wrong?

Edit:

I've manually compiled and installed libgpg-error and libgcrypt, the ./configure went fine without any warnings, when I ran sudo make I got this at the end:

chmod 755 ./gpg_dearmor
./gpg_dearmor > ./pubring.gpg < ./pubring.asc
../../g10/gpg2: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.20: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [pubring.gpg] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests/openpgp'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Then when I tried make install again, I got this:

Making install in tests
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
Making install in openpgp
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests/openpgp'
./gpg_dearmor > ./secring.gpg < ./secring.asc
../../g10/gpg2: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.20: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [secring.gpg] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests/openpgp'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Edit 2:

I found a post that said to run sudo ldconfig -v

And then when I ran ./configure and sudo make install again I was given this error at the end:

Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
srcdir=. GNUPGHOME=`/bin/pwd` GPG_AGENT_INFO= LC_ALL=C GPGSM=../sm/gpgsm ./runtest ./inittests
/bin/bash: ./runtest: Permission denied
make[3]: *** [inittests.stamp] Error 126
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Edit 3:

I ran a sudo chmod 755 on tests/runtest and did ./configure and sudo make AGAIN and now I have this error:

Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
srcdir=. GNUPGHOME=`/bin/pwd` GPG_AGENT_INFO= LC_ALL=C GPGSM=../sm/gpgsm ./runtest ./inittests
asschk: interpreter: invalid statement `set'
make[3]: *** [inittests.stamp] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new/tests'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nitrous/gnupg-new'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Sigh....

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  • You'll probably also have to compile and install libgpg-error and libgcrypt. Though I'm surprised you had to do chmod 775 configure - the tarball should already have an executable configure.
    – muru
    Oct 3, 2015 at 8:18
  • @muru I have done that and edited my original post with the results.
    – Joshua Terrill
    Oct 3, 2015 at 8:30
  • @muru fwiw it appears to configure and build successfully on my 64-bit 14.04 box with the standard repo versions of libgcrypt20-dev and libgpg-error-dev - I didn't need to install any newer dependencies from source.
    – steeldriver
    Oct 3, 2015 at 11:36
  • gist.github.com/mattrude/3883a3801613b048d45b
    – jmunsch
    Nov 2, 2018 at 22:39

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I have found the provided speedo method the easiest for gnupg-2.1.X:

  1. sudo apt-get update

  2. sudo apt-get install libldap2-dev gtk+-2 libbz2-dev

  3. after unpacking the latest gnupg-2.1.X tarball and cd to the new folder, run the command:

    sudo make -f build-aux/speedo.mk native INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local

  4. sudo ldconfig

  5. download the latest pinentry-0.9.5, run ./configure && make && sudo make install.

  6. test it out: gpg2 --version

****I would like to update this answer for GnuPG v2.2.x. The following bash file will install on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.10:

cd ~/Downloads
version=gnupg-2.2.2
wget https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/$version.tar.bz2
wget https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/$version.tar.bz2.sig
tar xf $version.tar.bz2
cd $version
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libldap2-dev
sudo apt-get install -y gtk+-2
sudo apt-get install -y rng-tools
sudo apt-get install -y libbz2-dev
sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libgmp-dev
sudo apt-get install -y nettle-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libgnutls28-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libsqlite3-dev
sudo apt-get install -y adns-tools
sudo apt-get install -y libreadline-dev
sudo apt-get install -y pinentry-gtk2
sudo apt-get install -y pcscd scdaemon
sudo make -f build-aux/speedo.mk native INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
sudo ldconfig

This will support TOFU and Smart Cards like Yubikey 4 Nano. To update to the newest version edit version=gnupg-2.2.2 Test it: gpg --version

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  • What do you mean download pinentry? Do I run those commands in pinentry to install it? Or do I install pinentry and then run those commands in gnupg? What does pinentry do?
    – Joshua Terrill
    Oct 3, 2015 at 23:40
  • Nevermind, I got it. I was typing in gpg instead of gpg2 (idiot). Thanks!
    – Joshua Terrill
    Oct 3, 2015 at 23:45
  • To be complete - yes download pinentry tarball, unpack, cd to new directory, and run ./configure etc to install it. Pinentry is not necessary to compile GnuPG but it is needed to enter passphrases interactively.
    – mac333
    Oct 4, 2015 at 12:36

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