msoffcrypto-tool command not found

Introduction

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

msoffcrypto-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: msoffcrypto-tool: command not found

Solutions to msoffcrypto-tool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu msoffcrypto-tool is provided by python3-msoffcrypto-tool package.

python3-msoffcrypto-tool is:

msoffcrypto-tool (formerly ms-offcrypto-tool) is a Python tool and library for decrypting encrypted MS Office files with password, intermediate key, or private key which generated its escrow key.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-msoffcrypto-tool

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-msoffcrypto-tool.

sudo apt -y install python3-msoffcrypto-tool

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

sudo aptitude install python3-msoffcrypto-tool

Summary

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