ccrypt command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ccrypt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ccrypt: command not found

Solutions to ccrypt: command not found

How To Fix ccrypt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ccrypt is provided by ccrypt package.

ccrypt is:

ccrypt is a utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard unix crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm. ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cipher, which is the U.S. government’s chosen candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES, see http://www.nist.gov/aes). This cipher is believed to provide very strong security.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ccrypt

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ccrypt.

sudo apt -y install ccrypt

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ccrypt

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ccrypt command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.