signify-openbsd command not found

Introduction

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

signify-openbsd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: signify-openbsd: command not found

Solutions to signify-openbsd: command not found

How To Fix signify-openbsd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu signify-openbsd is provided by signify-openbsd package.

signify-openbsd is:

Similar to GNU Privacy Guard (GPG), signify is the tool which OpenBSD uses to cryptographically sign its releases, so that you can be sure that you are actually getting a release made by OpenBSD, as opposed to a malicious forgery designed to look the same.

Signify’s usage is not limited to OpenBSD’s releases, however - it can be used to sign anything.

So that it will work on Linux, the version of signify provided in this package is not exactly the same as the version provided in OpenBSD’s CVS tree.

Note that for convenience OpenBSD’s public keys are shipped in the signify-openbsd-keys package, but you can also download them yourself.

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

sudo apt-get -y install signify-openbsd

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

You can also use apt command to install signify-openbsd.

sudo apt -y install signify-openbsd

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

sudo aptitude install signify-openbsd

Summary

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