gnome-keyring-3 command not found

Introduction

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

gnome-keyring-3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnome-keyring-3: command not found

Solutions to gnome-keyring-3: command not found

How To Fix gnome-keyring-3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnome-keyring-3 is provided by gnome-keyring package.

gnome-keyring is:

gnome-keyring is a daemon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and other applications can use it to store passwords and other sensitive information.

The program can manage several keyrings, each with its own master password, and there is also a session keyring which is never stored to disk, but forgotten when the session ends.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-keyring

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

You can also use apt command to install gnome-keyring.

sudo apt -y install gnome-keyring

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

sudo aptitude install gnome-keyring

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gnome-keyring-3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.