Check if GPG is Already Installed

Owned by Dmitry Donosiyan (Unlicensed)
Apr 30, 2018
1 min read

If you have Cygwin (a suite of software that gives a Windows machine much of the functionality of a Linux machine) you may already have GPG installed

Execute the following command:

$ gpg --version

If there is a GPG version installed properly, you will get a similar output:

gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14
libgcrypt 1.4.5
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
 Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, 
        CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2