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Android: A problem occurred starting process 'command 'gpg'', error=2, No such file or directory

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Problem Statement

I cloned a new project and it had gpg encryption. I installed gpg via running brew install gnupg in the terminal. I confirmed the installation via running which gpg command in the terminal and it gave me /opt/homebrew/bin/gpg path. I tried to build the project but it was giving the error as below:

Error

A problem occurred evaluating script.
Build file '/Users/srdpatel/androidProjects/projectName/oneOfTheDirectoiesOutOfThreeSiblings/app/build.gradle' line: 10
A problem occurred evaluating script.
> A problem occurred starting process 'command 'gpg''
> A problem occurred starting process 'command 'gpg''
> org.gradle.api.GradleScriptException: A problem occurred evaluating script.
> Caused by: net.rubygrapefruit.platform.NativeException: Could not start 'gpg'
> Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "gpg" (in directory "/Users/srdpatel/androidProjects/projectName/oneOfTheDirectoriesOutOfThreeSiblings"): error=2, No such file or directory

App Level Gradle Line 10

apply from: '../credentials/crypto.gradle'

Other information

  1. gpg is already installed via brew install gnupg and it is updated one only.
  2. The command which gpg in the terminal shows /opt/homebrew/bin/gpg.
Solution

  • The problem is in the script apply from: '../credentials/crypto.gradle'. We can press shift two times in Android Studio and type crypto.gradle to go to that file. There, we can find the word gpg. The result should look like below:

    def result = execute("gpg", ...

    Here, we need to replace the "gpg" with our absolute gpg path that we get from which gpg command in the terminal. For me, it gave me: /opt/homebrew/bin/gpg. So, we need to edit the existing "gpg" script as below:

    def result = execute("/opt/homebrew/bin/gpg", ...

    Now, we can click on Try again to build our Android project and this time, it should not throw the A problem occurred starting process 'command 'gpg'', ... error=2, No such file or directory.