gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy-server command not found

Introduction

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

gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy-server: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy-server: command not found

Solutions to gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy-server: command not found

How To Fix gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy-server: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy-server is provided by gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy package.

gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy is:

gnupg-pkcs11-scd is a drop-in replacement for the smart-card daemon (scd) shipped with GnuPG. The daemon interfaces to smart-cards by using RSA Security Inc. PKCS#11 Cryptographic Token Interface (Cryptoki).

The daemon is a proxy into gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy-server which can be run within different security context to load the gnupg-pkcs11-scd smart-card daemon.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy

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

You can also use apt command to install gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy.

sudo apt -y install gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy

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

sudo aptitude install gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gnupg-pkcs11-scd-proxy-server command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.