mate-seahorse-tool command not found

Introduction

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

mate-seahorse-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mate-seahorse-tool: command not found

Solutions to mate-seahorse-tool: command not found

How To Fix mate-seahorse-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mate-seahorse-tool is provided by caja-seahorse package.

caja-seahorse is:

Seahorse caja is an extension for caja which allows encryption and decryption of OpenPGP files using GnuPG. It is integrated into the caja right-click menu, but can also be used from the command line. It’s based on seahorse-nautilus.

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

sudo apt-get -y install caja-seahorse

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

You can also use apt command to install caja-seahorse.

sudo apt -y install caja-seahorse

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

sudo aptitude install caja-seahorse

Summary

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