rsyncrypto command not found

Introduction

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

rsyncrypto: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rsyncrypto: command not found

Solutions to rsyncrypto: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rsyncrypto is provided by rsyncrypto package.

rsyncrypto is:

Rsyncrypto allows you to encrypt a file or a directory structure, such that they can later be synchronized to another machine using rsync. This means that local changes to the plain text file result in local changes to the cipher text file.

rsyncrypto compresses the plain text file prior to encrypting it.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rsyncrypto

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

You can also use apt command to install rsyncrypto.

sudo apt -y install rsyncrypto

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

sudo aptitude install rsyncrypto

Summary

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