gpgwrap command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gpgwrap command not found error message

Introduction

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

gpgwrap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gpgwrap: command not found

Solutions to gpgwrap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gpgwrap is provided by signing-party package.

signing-party is:

signing-party is a collection for all kinds of PGP/GnuPG related things, including tools for signing keys, keyring analysis, and party preparation.

  • caff: CA - Fire and Forget signs and mails a key
  • pgp-clean: removes all non-self signatures from key
  • pgp-fixkey: removes broken packets from keys
  • gpg-mailkeys: simply mail out a signed key to its owner
  • gpg-key2ps: generate PostScript file with fingerprint paper slips
  • gpgdir: recursive directory encryption tool
  • gpglist: show who signed which of your UIDs
  • gpgsigs: annotates list of GnuPG keys with already done signatures
  • gpgparticipants: create list of party participants for the organiser
  • gpgwrap: a passphrase wrapper
  • keyanalyze: minimum signing distance (MSD) analysis on keyrings
  • keylookup: ncurses wrapper around gpg –search
  • sig2dot: converts a list of GnuPG signatures to a .dot file
  • springgraph: creates a graph from a .dot file
  • keyart: creates a random ASCII art of a PGP key file
  • gpg-key2latex: generate LaTeX file with fingerprint paper slips

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

sudo apt-get -y install signing-party

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

You can also use apt command to install signing-party.

sudo apt -y install signing-party

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

sudo aptitude install signing-party

Summary

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