gpgconf command not found

Introduction

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

gpgconf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gpgconf: command not found

Solutions to gpgconf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gpgconf is provided by gpgconf package.

gpgconf is:

GnuPG is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage.

This package contains core utilities used by different tools in the suite offered by GnuPG. It can be used to programmatically edit config files for tools in the GnuPG suite, to launch or terminate per-user daemons (if installed), etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gpgconf

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

You can also use apt command to install gpgconf.

sudo apt -y install gpgconf

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

sudo aptitude install gpgconf

Summary

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