git-remote-gcrypt command not found

Introduction

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

git-remote-gcrypt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-remote-gcrypt: command not found

Solutions to git-remote-gcrypt: command not found

How To Fix git-remote-gcrypt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-remote-gcrypt is provided by git-remote-gcrypt package.

git-remote-gcrypt is:

This lets git store git repositories in encrypted form. It supports storing repositories on rsync or sftp servers. It can also store the encrypted git repository inside a remote git repository. All the regular git commands like git push and git pull can be used to operate on such an encrypted repository.

The aim is to provide confidential, authenticated git storage and collaboration using typical untrusted file hosts or services.

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-remote-gcrypt

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

You can also use apt command to install git-remote-gcrypt.

sudo apt -y install git-remote-gcrypt

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

sudo aptitude install git-remote-gcrypt

Summary

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