py3rsa-decrypt command not found

Introduction

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

py3rsa-decrypt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: py3rsa-decrypt: command not found

Solutions to py3rsa-decrypt: command not found

How To Fix py3rsa-decrypt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu py3rsa-decrypt is provided by python3-rsa package.

python3-rsa is:

Python-RSA is a pure-Python RSA implementation. It supports encryption and decryption, signing and verifying signatures, and key generation according to PKCS#1 version 1.5. It can be used as a Python library as well as on the commandline. The code was mostly written by Sybren A. Stüvel.

This package contains the module for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rsa

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-rsa.

sudo apt -y install python3-rsa

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rsa

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix py3rsa-decrypt command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.