scrypt command not found

Introduction

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

scrypt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scrypt: command not found

Solutions to scrypt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu scrypt is provided by scrypt package.

scrypt is:

A simple password-based encryption utility which demonstrates the scrypt key derivation function. On modern hardware and with default parameters, the cost of cracking the password on a file encrypted by scrypt enc is approximately 100 billion times more than the cost of cracking the same password on a file encrypted by openssl enc; this means that a five-character password using scrypt is stronger than a ten-character password using openssl.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scrypt

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

You can also use apt command to install scrypt.

sudo apt -y install scrypt

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

sudo aptitude install scrypt

Summary

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