gpgv-static command not found

Introduction

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

gpgv-static: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gpgv-static: command not found

Solutions to gpgv-static: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gpgv-static is provided by gpgv-static package.

gpgv-static 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 RFC 4880.

This is GnuPG’s signature verification tool, gpgv, built statically so that it can be directly used on any platform that is running on the Linux kernel. Android and ChromeOS are two well known examples, but there are many other platforms that this will work for, like embedded Linux OSes. This gpgv in combination with debootstrap and the Debian archive keyring allows the secure creation of chroot installs on these platforms by using the full Debian signature verification that is present in all official Debian mirrors.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gpgv-static

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

You can also use apt command to install gpgv-static.

sudo apt -y install gpgv-static

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

sudo aptitude install gpgv-static

Summary

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