gpg-remailer command not found

Introduction

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

gpg-remailer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gpg-remailer: command not found

Solutions to gpg-remailer: command not found

How To Fix gpg-remailer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gpg-remailer is provided by gpg-remailer package.

gpg-remailer is:

Gpg-remailer is somewhat similar to ordinary mailing list software, but all e-mail processed by gpg-remailer is PGP/GPG signed and encrypted.

Gpg-remailer decrypts received PGP/GPG messages, verifies the received signature and re-encrypts the e-mail for the members of a well defined group of recipients. Using gpg-remailer the list of members of a group of people who want to exchange encrypted and authenticated e-mail can be maintained at one location, allowing the members of the group to specify just one e-mail address to send PGP/GPG signed and encrypted e-mail to.

Gpg-remailer recognizes the following e-mail formats: * Standard simple encrypted messages. * Multi-part encrypted messages. * Encrypted messages containing detached signatures.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gpg-remailer

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

You can also use apt command to install gpg-remailer.

sudo apt -y install gpg-remailer

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

sudo aptitude install gpg-remailer

Summary

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