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              Welcome to GPA, the GNU Privacy Assistant!
                            Version 0.9.0
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GPA is a graphical frontend for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG,
http://www.gnupg.org). GPA can be used to encrypt, decrypt, and sign
files, to verify signatures and to manage the private and public keys.

Copyright (C) 2000-2002 G-N-U GmbH (http://www.g-n-u.de)
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Miguel Coca.
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009  g10 Code GmbH

GPA uses fragments from the following programs and libraries:
JNLIB, Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GPGME, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Werner Koch
WinPT, Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Timo Schulz
(For details, see the file `AUTHORS'.)

There is a mailing list devoted to the development of GPA.  See
http://www.gnupg.org/gpa.html for more information.  There is also a
project site available at: http://wald.intevation.org/projects/gpa/ .

  GPA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.
  
  GPA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.
  
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  

Installation under a Unix like operating system
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You need development versins of the GTK+ and GPGME libraries.
See the file INSTALL for installation details; in short:

    ./configure
    make
    make install

The configure scrits check whether all required libraries are
installed and that they are recent enough.  In order to do anything
useful with GPA you also need the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) version 2
installed - see http://www.gnupg.org.

Please report any problems to gpa-dev@gnupg.org.


Installation under MS-Windows
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Instead of building GPA by yourself, you probably want to download
the ready-to-use installer from http://www.gpg4win.org, the light
installer is sufficient, don't you? ;-)

If you want to do it your self, you need to have the Windows
development version of all libraries already installed on your box.
GPA may only be build using a cross compiler.  It is best to install
all windows stuff under a tree like ~/w32root with the usual bin, lib
and include directories.  If you did this you merely need to run

  ./autogen.sh --build-w32
  make
  make install

The autogen.sh script invoked this way calls configure with all
required arguments.  Check the script to see how to adjust to your own
environment.


Have fun!