gpgv command not found

Introduction

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

gpgv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gpgv: command not found

Solutions to gpgv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gpgv is provided by gpgv package.

gpgv is:

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

gpgv is actually a stripped-down version of gpg which is only able to check signatures. It is somewhat smaller than the fully-blown gpg and uses a different (and simpler) way to check that the public keys used to make the signature are valid. There are no configuration files and only a few options are implemented.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gpgv

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

You can also use apt command to install gpgv.

sudo apt -y install gpgv

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

sudo aptitude install gpgv

Summary

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