topal command not found

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

Introduction

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

topal: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: topal: command not found

Solutions to topal: command not found

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

In Ubuntu topal is provided by topal package.

topal is:

Topal is yet another program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine. It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify messages. Multiple PGP blocks included in the text of a message are processed. Decryption and verification output can be cached to reduce the number of times the passphrase is entered. RFC2015/3156 multipart messages can be sent and received with help from some scripts, procmail, and a patch to Pine/Alpine. It includes basic support for verifying S/MIME multipart/signed messages. There is a remote sending mode for reading email on a distant computer via SSH with secret keys on the local computer. There is a high level of configurability.

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

sudo apt-get -y install topal

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

You can also use apt command to install topal.

sudo apt -y install topal

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

sudo aptitude install topal

Summary

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