gmime-uudecode command not found

Introduction

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

gmime-uudecode: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gmime-uudecode: command not found

Solutions to gmime-uudecode: command not found

How To Fix gmime-uudecode: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gmime-uudecode is provided by gmime-bin package.

gmime-bin is:

GMime provides a core library and set of utilities which may be used for the creation and parsing of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).

This package contains binary tools for encoding and decoding messages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gmime-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install gmime-bin.

sudo apt -y install gmime-bin

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

sudo aptitude install gmime-bin

Summary

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