zcrypt command not found

Introduction

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

zcrypt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zcrypt: command not found

Solutions to zcrypt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu zcrypt is provided by barnowl package.

barnowl is:

A curses-based instant-messaging client supporting the Jabber, IRC, AIM and Zephyr protocols. Much of the functionality is written in Perl, which is supported as an extension language.

This is a fork of ktools software’s owl Zephyr/AIM client.

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

sudo apt-get -y install barnowl

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

You can also use apt command to install barnowl.

sudo apt -y install barnowl

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

sudo aptitude install barnowl

Summary

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