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In Ubuntu 15.10 when using Mozilla Thunderbird with Enigmail I get the following warning (in Swedish):

Du använder GnuPG version 1.4.18, vilken inte längre stöds. Enigmail kräver GnuPG version 2.0.7 eller senare. Vänligen uppgradera din installation av GnuPG annars fungerar inte Enigmail.

As I understand it my version of GnuPG is to old and I need to upgrade. However, I can't figure out how to do that.

At Enigmail FAQ I read that:

you install GnuPG 2.0 via the regular package management system of your distribution (e.g. apt, yum, yast). On many distributions the package is called "gnupg2" or "gpg2"".

But I'm only a normal user, and I don't understand what that means and what I'm suppose to do.

I would be very happy for some help. For example some kind of very basic step by step ”How to” guide.

muru
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FlyingD
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On Ubuntu, GnuPG 2.0 is available for all supported releases under the package name gnupg (and they are all > 2.0.7). To install it, open a terminal (press CtrlAltT) and run this command:

sudo apt-get install gnupg

It used to be called gnupg2, but the gnupg package was updated to provide GnuPG 2 and gnupg2 became a transitional package which just depends on gnupg.

muru
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