gpgv1 command not found

Introduction

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

gpgv1: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gpgv1: command not found

Solutions to gpgv1: command not found

How To Fix gpgv1: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gpgv1 is provided by gpgv1 package.

gpgv1 is:

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

gpgv is a stripped-down version of gnupg which is only able to check signatures. It is smaller than the full-blown gnupg and uses a different (and simpler) way to check that the public keys used to make the signature are trustworthy.

gpgv1 is the “classic” version of gpgv. It does not support as many cryptographic primitives as the modern version, so there are signatures it cannot verify. Please use the “gpgv” package instead where possible.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gpgv1

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

You can also use apt command to install gpgv1.

sudo apt -y install gpgv1

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

sudo aptitude install gpgv1

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gpgv1 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.