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High Sierra and Homebrew not playing nice for GPG

Mac OS High Sierra (10.13.6) here. I am trying to get Homebrew to install gpg and gpg-agent and am running into issues. Running:

brew install gpg gpg-agent

generates the following output:

Error: No available formula with the name "gpg-agent" 
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run:
  git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow

Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

Any ideas what the fix is?

Solution

  • To get gpg-agent you need to install gnupg, you can check this question for details, also you can try gpgtools which includes gpg-agent.