Encryption via gpg: "no such file"

Question

When attempting to save some file.gpg, the minibuffer returns Opening output file: Searching for program, no such file or directory, gpg. According to the EmacsWiki, all that should be required is the following two lines in ~/.emacs.d/init.el

(require 'epa-file)
(epa-file-enable) 

I am running Emacs 24.5.1 on Mac OS X 10.11.6. I installed gpg separately via terminal command brew install gpg, but this did not help. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Looks like a common issue with environment variables in GUI version of emacs. To solve this you can install exec-path-from-shell package and add this to your init file:

(exec-path-from-shell-initialize)

or you can modify exec-path by adding required folder:

(setq exec-path (append exec-path '("/path/to/binary/folder/"))