mime-tool command not found

Introduction

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

mime-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mime-tool: command not found

Solutions to mime-tool: command not found

How To Fix mime-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mime-tool is provided by topal package.

topal is:

Topal is yet another program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine. It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify messages. Multiple PGP blocks included in the text of a message are processed. Decryption and verification output can be cached to reduce the number of times the passphrase is entered. RFC2015/3156 multipart messages can be sent and received with help from some scripts, procmail, and a patch to Pine/Alpine. It includes basic support for verifying S/MIME multipart/signed messages. There is a remote sending mode for reading email on a distant computer via SSH with secret keys on the local computer. There is a high level of configurability.

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

sudo apt-get -y install topal

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

You can also use apt command to install topal.

sudo apt -y install topal

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

sudo aptitude install topal

Summary

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