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How to (de-)install GnuPG
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Part One, or Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Make a say folder "gnupg" on c:\, so it looks like this...

c:\gnupg

...and then place all the GnuPG files in it, so the gpg.exe is found
here... 

c:\gnupg\gpg.exe

Then copy this into Notepad...

    REGEDIT4

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GnuPG]
    "agentReadFD"="0"
    "agentWriteFD"="0"
    "agentPID"="0"
    "agentCID"="0"
    "OptFile"="c:\\gnupg\\gpg.conf"
    "HomeDir"="c:\\gnupg"
    "gpgProgram"="c:\\gnupg\\gpg.exe"

...and save it anywhere you wish, under a name "gpg-in.reg", then run 
this file and say [YES] to all the offers.

This act is called "adding GnuPG to Registry".

After that, if you are using...

            XP.. : Push the "Windows" key, hold it and flip the
                   Pause/Brake key. Go to Advanced | Environment 
                   Variables and in "System Variables, select "Path".
                   Hit the [Edit] button and in "Variable value" 
                   add at the end of the line this...
                   
                   ;c:\gnupg
                   
                   ...and then beat the [OK] button until it 
                   disappears from the scene.

        Win98/95 : Drag and drop the file...
                   
                   c:\Autoexec.bat
                   
                   ...into Notepad, and then find the line beginning
                   with...
                   
                   PATH=
                   
                   ...and at its end add this...
                   
                   ;c:\gnupg
                   
                   ...save the file, and restart machine.
                   
                           ____~~(_".____________
                           If there is no the line beginning with...
                           
                           PATH=
                           
                           ...then we add it ourselves, so it looks 
                           like this...
                           
                           PATH=c:\gnupg
                           
                           ...and then we save the file, and restart 
                           machine.

This act is called "adding GnuPG to the $PATH", and the whole 
procedure explained and happily finished right now is called
"installation".

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To check if you have everything done well, into the DOS window
(Start | Run | cmd) you type in this...

gpg --version

...and something like this should appear...

gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.3
Copyright (C) 2006 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: c:/gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

...which means that you have everything done well.



Part Two, or De-installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Delete the folder c:\gnupg with all the files inside (although you 
could place aside the `gpg.conf' file, if you have something very
special in it, so you love it very much).

Copy this into Notepad...

    REGEDIT4

    [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GnuPG]
    "agentReadFD"="0"
    "agentWriteFD"="0"
    "agentPID"="0"
    "agentCID"="0"
    "OptFile"="c:\\gnupg\\gpg.conf"
    "HomeDir"="c:\\gnupg"
    "gpgProgram"="c:\\gnupg\\gpg.exe"

...and save it anywhere you wish, under a name "gpg-out.reg", then run
this file and say [YES] to all the offers.

This act is called "removing GnuPG from Registry".

After that, if you are using...

            XP.. : Push the "Windows" key, hold it and flip the
                   Pause/Brake key. Go to Advanced | Environment 
                   Variables and in "System Variables, select "Path".
                   Hit the [Edit] button and in "Variable value" 
                   find the part...
                   
                   ;c:\gnupg
                   
                   ...remove it, and then beat the [OK] button until 
                   it disappears from the scene.

        Win98/95 : Drag and drop the file...
                   
                   c:\Autoexec.bat
                   
                   ...into Notepad, and then in the line beginning 
                   with...                                   
                   
                   PATH=
                   
                   ...find the part you have had added, be that a...
                   
                   ;c:\gnupg
                   
                   ...or...
                   
                   c:\gnupg
                   
                   ...remove it, save the file, and restart the 
                   machine.
                   
This act is called "removing GnuPG from the $PATH", and the whole 
procedure explained and happily finished right now is called
"de-installation".

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