gpg2 command not found

Introduction

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

gpg2: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gpg2: command not found

Solutions to gpg2: command not found

How To Fix gpg2: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gpg2 is provided by gnupg2 package.

gnupg2 is:

GnuPG is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC4880.

This is a dummy transitional package that provides symlinks from gpg2 to gpg.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnupg2

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

You can also use apt command to install gnupg2.

sudo apt -y install gnupg2

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

sudo aptitude install gnupg2

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gpg2 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.