Showing posts with label seahorse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seahorse. Show all posts

14 June 2013

451. Seahorse plugins on gnome 3.4 -- PGP encrypting/decrypting in nautilus

Once upon a time it was possible to de/encrypt in gedit, and life was good. Then GNOME 3 came along, and the seahorse plugin for edit disappeared. (presumably you might be able to write a script to use with the External Tools gedit plugin).

It re-emerged as a plugin for Nautilus instead.

I'm showing version 3.4.0 since I'm on GNOME 3.4, and who knows what API has broken in between this and 3.8...anyway, look at https://git.gnome.org/browse/seahorse-nautilus/ for different versions.

There are probably more build dependencies than the ones I'm listing.

sudo apt-get install libcryptui-dev libnautilus-extension-dev libgpgme11-dev checkinstall autoconf automake checkinstall
wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/seahorse-nautilus/snapshot/seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0.tar.gz
tar xvf seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0.tar.gz 
cd seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0/
./autogen.sh
GnuPG Version: gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.12 GPGME Version: 1.2.0 Notification Support: yes Now type `make' to compile seahorse-nautilus
sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no
- Maintainer: [ root@beryllium ] 1 - Summary: [ seahorse-nautilus 3.4.0 ] 2 - Name: [ seahorse-nautilus ] 3 - Version: [ 3.4.0 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ checkinstall ] 7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ] 8 - Source location: [ seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0 ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Requires: [ ] 11 - Provides: [ seahorse-nautilus ] 12 - Conflicts: [ ] 13 - Replaces: [ ]

Encrypting:
Open nautilus, select a text file and right click:




Decrypting:
Simple:

Although in my case I had kde-full installed, which pulled in kgpg:

If you're having other issues with decrypting, check that the mime associations are correct:

xdg-mime query filetype plaintext.file.pgp 
application/pgp-encrypted

15 December 2012

292. seahorse -- what happened?

There's been a lot of talk about how nautilus will be simplified/dumbed-down/crippled/improved -- but I didn't know seahorse was going to undergo such a radical makeover. Don't know if it's for better, worse or if it changes nothing, but at the moment I'm having trouble finding my way around.

seahorse 3.4.1-2