parcimonie command not found

Introduction

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

parcimonie: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: parcimonie: command not found

Solutions to parcimonie: command not found

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

In Ubuntu parcimonie is provided by parcimonie package.

parcimonie is:

parcimonie is a daemon that slowly refreshes a gpg public keyring from a keyserver.

It refreshes one OpenPGP key at a time; between every key update parcimonie sleeps a random amount of time, long enough for the previously used Tor circuit to expire.

This process is meant to make it hard for an attacker to correlate the multiple performed key update operations.

See the included design document to learn more about the threat and risk models parcimonie attempts to help coping with.

XDG-compliant desktop environments automatically start parcimonie.

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

sudo apt-get -y install parcimonie

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

You can also use apt command to install parcimonie.

sudo apt -y install parcimonie

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

sudo aptitude install parcimonie

Summary

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