Force pinentry tool for gnupg

While interacting with gnupg
on Debian/Ubuntu it is often necessary to input a passphrase. I found the most reliable way to do this from the command line is to use gpg-agent
and configure the pinentry tool to be command line based. This may break GUI apps though that need a pinentry tool.
$ update-alternatives --config pinentry
$ # Alternatively
$ update-alternatives --set $(which pinentry-tty)
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