hkt command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix hkt command not found error message

Introduction

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

hkt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hkt: command not found

In Ubuntu hkt is provided by hopenpgp-tools package.

hopenpgp-tools is:

These utilities, hot, hokey, and hkt, are works in progress. They provide some OpenPGP-related functionality.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hopenpgp-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install hopenpgp-tools.

sudo apt -y install hopenpgp-tools

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

sudo aptitude install hopenpgp-tools

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