fscrypt command not found

Introduction

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

fscrypt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fscrypt: command not found

Solutions to fscrypt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fscrypt is provided by fscrypt package.

fscrypt is:

fscrypt is a high-level tool for the management of Linux filesystem encryption. This tool manages metadata, key generation, key wrapping, PAM integration, and provides a uniform interface for creating and modifying encrypted directories.

To use fscrypt, you must have a filesystem with encryption enabled and a kernel that supports reading/writing from that filesystem. Currently, ext4, F2FS, and UBIFS support Linux filesystem encryption. Ext4 has supported Linux filesystem encryption since v4.1, F2FS added support in v4.2, and UBIFS added support in v4.10. Other filesystems may add support for native encryption in the future.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fscrypt

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

You can also use apt command to install fscrypt.

sudo apt -y install fscrypt

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

sudo aptitude install fscrypt

Summary

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