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2. The GnuPG source is distributed as a bzipped tarball, so
uncompress and extract it:
# bunzip gnupg-1.4.0.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -
The resulting directory contains several text files of
information and the files necessary to build the software.
Some interesting files include README, which contains a
brief introduction to GnuPG, and INSTALL, which gives
detailed instructions on how to build GnuPG from source
code and get it running on your system.
3. The configure script checks your system to see if you have
everything ready to actually compile GnuPG. For a stock
GnuPG setup, just run the following:
# ./configure
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