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larstobi

13 Apr, 2012 08:54 AM

I have installed GPGTools on Mac using your installer, and it has installed itself under /usr/local/MacGPG2. I would like to install it to a different location. Is that possible?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Luke Le on 13 Apr, 2012 10:30 AM

   

   Hi,

   unfortunately it's not possible to do so at the moment.
   But we're interested in your reasons why you'd want to change the location and it might be changed in future releases if more users express the demand for a custom location.

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2. 2 Posted by Lars Tobias Skj... on 13 Apr, 2012 10:52 AM

   

   One of the reasons I'm asking is that I use Homebrew[1] as a package manager for UNIX tools that Apple didn't include (or don't update) in OSX. This package manager likes to claim /usr/local for itself, and since it will build packages from source, it can get confused by there being unexpected software in /usr/local, and especially the gpg-symlinks in /usr/local/bin.

   It is possible to install Homebrew in a different location, but some software packages won't build as easily, or at all, when dependency libraries are in non-standard locations.

   [1] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Luke Le on 13 Apr, 2012 10:58 AM

   

   Hi Lars,

   we're using homebrew ourselves for our MacGPG2 build process and if I'm not mistaken, homebrew should actually not get confused by custom installs as stated on https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ under
   "Can I install my own stuff to /usr/local?"

   However as the FAQ later says, you might run into problems if you install common libraries. This should not be the case with MacGPG2 since only bins are symlinked into the /usr/local/bin folder.

   Hope this helps

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4. 4 Posted by Lars Tobias Skj... on 13 Apr, 2012 11:20 AM

   

   I don't think /usr/local/MacGPG2 will present any problems to any Homebrew builds either, and I manually removed the symlinks it installed into /usr/local/bin (gpg, gpg2, gpg-agent), so that I can build and install gpg with Homebrew. "brew doctor" complains about the /usr/local/MacGPG2 files.

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Luke Le on 13 Apr, 2012 11:22 AM

   

   Is there a special reason why you'd want to build your own gpg?
   Also, could you please post the output of brew doctor so I could have a look at it?

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6. 6 Posted by Lars Tobias Skj... on 13 Apr, 2012 11:35 AM

   

   Building gpg with homebrew is mainly for satisfying package dependencies.

   Here is the output of "brew doctor":

   Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
   ./configure scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
   compiling and linking.

   Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
   Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
   script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:

   /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/libusb-config
   /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/ksba-config
   /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/pth-config
   /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/libassuan-config
   /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/libgcrypt-config
   /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg-error-config
   

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Luke Le on 13 Apr, 2012 11:55 AM

   

   It might help to know that the current nightly (and all next versions of) MacGPG2 does no longer include these config scripts since we've stripped it down to make it much smaller.

   Please try to install the nightly installer and check if homebrew still complains.

   http://nightly.gpgtools.org/MacGPG2-trunk.dmg

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8. 8 Posted by Lars Tobias Skj... on 13 Apr, 2012 12:29 PM

   

   That solves the brew doctor complaints. Thanks! :)

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9. Support Staff 9 Posted by Luke Le on 13 Apr, 2012 12:47 PM

   

   Perfect!
   Closing this discussion. Feel free to open a new one any time!

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10. Luke Le closed this discussion on 13 Apr, 2012 12:47 PM.