guncat command not found

Introduction

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

guncat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: guncat: command not found

Solutions to guncat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu guncat is provided by guncat package.

guncat is:

Guncat acts like unix’s cat command, but handles (partially) encrypted sections of processed files. Sections of guncat’s input files which are surrounded by —–BEGIN PGP MESSAGE—– and —–END PGP MESSAGE—– markers are decrypted before being concatenated to the standard output stream.

Guncat’s output (i.e., the standard output stream) may subsequently be processed by other programs, like grep or less. Guncat supports reading a decryption passphrase either from stdin or from gpg-agent.

Guncat stands for (Gpg UNencrypting CAT) and was designed to facilitate searching through (partially) PGP encrypted files, as encountered in mailboxes, for example.

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

sudo apt-get -y install guncat

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

You can also use apt command to install guncat.

sudo apt -y install guncat

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

sudo aptitude install guncat

Summary

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