Windows Setup

The instructions below are very brief and refer to Windows 2000 and XP. If you are using another flavour of Windows, or require more detailed instructions, click on the Instructions for Installing GnuPG on Windows button (This button is only visible on Windows machines).

1.	On the SourceForge website, scroll down until you see the binary download file. This will be called something like “GnuPG 1.4.2 compiled for Microsoft Windows”.

Note: You must download the binary file, not a Source Package.

2. The downloaded file will probably be named something like “gnupg-w32cli-1.4.2.exe”. Double click on this to launch the installer. Follow the prompts and when prompted for the destination Folder be sure it is at the root of your C drive i.e. C:\gnupg.

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3. Edit the PATH environment so that Windows knows where the program is installed. To do this, select Start > Settings > Control Panel > System, click the Advanced Tab then click the Environment Variables button. In the System Variables section is a variable for PATH which can be changed by clicking the Edit button. The values in this variable are separated by semicolons, so add ;c:\gnupg to the end of the variable. For example,if your PATH variable is currently: c:\windows;c:\utils change it to c:\windows;c:\utils;c\gnupg.

To test if you have installed it correctly, open the Command Prompt (Start > Run, Type cmd) and enter: gpg --version

Hit the Return key and you should see something like the following output:

gpg (GnuPG)1.4.2 Copyright (C)2004 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, ELG

Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH

Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160

Compress: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB