age-keygen command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix age-keygen command not found error message

Introduction

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

age-keygen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: age-keygen: command not found

In Ubuntu age-keygen is provided by age package.

age is:

age features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

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

sudo apt-get -y install age

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

You can also use apt command to install age.

sudo apt -y install age

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

sudo aptitude install age

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