gscriptor command not found

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

Introduction

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

gscriptor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gscriptor: command not found

In Ubuntu gscriptor is provided by pcsc-tools package.

pcsc-tools is:

This archive contains some tools useful for a PC/SC user. The tools provided are:

pcsc_scan(1) scans available smart card readers and print detected events: card insertion with ATR, card removal;

ATR_analysis(1) analyses a smart card ATR (Answer To Reset)

scriptor(1) Perl script to send commands to a smart card using a batch file or stdin;

gscriptor(1) the same idea as scriptor.pl(1) but with Perl-Gtk GUI.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pcsc-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install pcsc-tools.

sudo apt -y install pcsc-tools

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

sudo aptitude install pcsc-tools

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