openpgpkey command not found

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

Introduction

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

openpgpkey: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: openpgpkey: command not found

Solutions to openpgpkey: command not found

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

In Ubuntu openpgpkey is provided by hash-slinger package.

hash-slinger is:

This package contains various tools to generate special DNS records:

  • sshfp Generate RFC-4255 SSHFP DNS records
  • tlsa Generate RFC-6698 TLSA DNS records via TLS
  • openpgpkey Generate RFC- OPENPGPKEY DNS records

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

sudo apt-get -y install hash-slinger

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

You can also use apt command to install hash-slinger.

sudo apt -y install hash-slinger

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

sudo aptitude install hash-slinger

Summary

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