kwalletcli_getpin command not found

Introduction

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

kwalletcli_getpin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kwalletcli_getpin: command not found

Solutions to kwalletcli_getpin: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kwalletcli_getpin is provided by kwalletcli package.

kwalletcli is:

kwalletcli implements a command line interface tool to get and set password entries in the default KDE Wallet. Also included are a shell wrapper around pinentry, a pinentry-kwallet application checking the KDE Wallet for the passphrase requested before asking the user for use with the GnuPG Agent, which is also capable of running without a pinentry as backend, and kwalletaskpass, which can store SSH key passphrases in the KDE Wallet for use with the OpenSSH Agent, and is registered as ssh-askpass alternative.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kwalletcli

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

You can also use apt command to install kwalletcli.

sudo apt -y install kwalletcli

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

sudo aptitude install kwalletcli

Summary

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