pinentry-x2go command not found

Introduction

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

pinentry-x2go: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pinentry-x2go: command not found

Solutions to pinentry-x2go: command not found

How To Fix pinentry-x2go: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pinentry-x2go is provided by pinentry-x2go package.

pinentry-x2go is:

X2Go is a serverbased computing environment with - session resuming - low bandwidth support - session brokerage support - client-side mass storage mounting support - client-side printing support - audio support - authentication by smartcard and USB stick

This package contains an X2Go Client add-on. The add-on provides a PIN or passphrase dialog window for OpenPGP (smart)card authentication with X2Go.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pinentry-x2go

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

You can also use apt command to install pinentry-x2go.

sudo apt -y install pinentry-x2go

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

sudo aptitude install pinentry-x2go

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pinentry-x2go command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.