openpgp-applet command not found

Introduction

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

openpgp-applet: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: openpgp-applet: command not found

Solutions to openpgp-applet: command not found

How To Fix openpgp-applet: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu openpgp-applet is provided by openpgp-applet package.

openpgp-applet is:

OpenPGP Applet is a graphical frontend on top of GnuPG.

It allows encryption and decryption of the clipboard’s content either with public key cryptography, or with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase. Creating and verifying clear text signatures is also supported.

Note: OpenPGP Applet does not handle passphrase input. Since it also does not offer terminal interaction unless explicitly run from there, it relies in practice on GnuPG agent to be running and configured to use a passphrase entry dialog, such as pinentry-gnome3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install openpgp-applet

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

You can also use apt command to install openpgp-applet.

sudo apt -y install openpgp-applet

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

sudo aptitude install openpgp-applet

Summary

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