Quote from: Oompaloompa on July 16, 2012, 07:07 amI've run the gpg version commands. Outputs are:...Hope that means something.Yep. It tells me that you don't have GPG 2.0.x installed, the default installation is GPG 1.4.11. This is fine (I'm using 1.4.12), but it doesn't come with any frontends.Quote from: Oompaloompa on July 16, 2012, 07:07 amI've got the terminal sizing sorted, I've found I can open a resizable terminal with ctrl+Alt+T rather than a full screen terminal (with no mouse or copy paste) with ctrl+alt+f1 to f6Where on the GUI should I be looking for 'the package management system that comes with Ubuntu' - aptitude, I've searched applications for apt but nothing's appearing?It'll be there, but it might be tucked away under some system management menu. Probably called something like System or Utilities. It's been a few years since I've done anything with Ubuntu and they've changed their default window manager since then.Quote from: Oompaloompa on July 16, 2012, 07:07 amI took a look at the link you posted and have installed geany via the terminal, I'll try it out later when I'm back from work.Cool.For a frontend, everyone I know using either Windows or Ubuntu swears by GnuPG Shell. The home page for it is here:http://www.tech-faq.com/gnupg-shell.htmlWhat you want to do is open a terminal and run the following commands:Code: [Select]wget -t 0 -c http://www.tech-faq.com/gnupg-shell/gnupgshell-1.0.0.i386.deb.gzgunzip gnupgshell-1.0.0.i386.deb.gzsudo dpkg -i gnupgshell-1.0.0.i386.debSudo will prompt for a password, this is your user password for logging into Ubuntu.It should install to a relevant menu within the window manager, but if you can't find it then running "gnupgshell" in a terminal should launch it. The screenshots on the home page should give a good indication of what it will be able to do.Assuming, of course, that everything behaves properly. Personally I haven't used a frontend (not counting Enigmail) for years. For all the stuff here I use a combination of the command line and the Emacs text editor with EasyPG (with plugins for Firefox and Thunderbird so I can use Emacs with them). That's probably not the route you want to take at this stage, though. Emacs can be a little complex and it takes a long time and a lot of effort to get used to.Anyway, try this and let me know how it goes.