ratpoints command not found

Introduction

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

ratpoints: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ratpoints: command not found

Solutions to ratpoints: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ratpoints is provided by ratpoints package.

ratpoints is:

This program tries to find all rational points within a given height bound on a hyperelliptic curve in a very efficient way, by using an optimized quadratic sieve algorithm.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ratpoints

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

You can also use apt command to install ratpoints.

sudo apt -y install ratpoints

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

sudo aptitude install ratpoints

Summary

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