mwrank command not found

Introduction

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

mwrank: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mwrank: command not found

Solutions to mwrank: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mwrank is provided by eclib-tools package.

eclib-tools is:

This package includes several programs to compute with elliptic curves over Q ; most notably mwrank (for 2-descent on elliptic curves over Q) and the modular symbol tools used to create the elliptic curve database.

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

sudo apt-get -y install eclib-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install eclib-tools.

sudo apt -y install eclib-tools

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

sudo aptitude install eclib-tools

Summary

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