baffled at "Chapter 1. Getting Started" due to gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry

[Ralph Seichter]

* Dennis Clarke via Gnupg-users:

> Looking at https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html one would get
> the idea that GPG would "just work" given that pinentry is right there
> in my PATH [...]

How would one get that idea? The manual page you linked contains neither
the string "pinentry" nor "PATH".

-Ralph