curvecpmessage command not found

Introduction

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

curvecpmessage: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: curvecpmessage: command not found

Solutions to curvecpmessage: command not found

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

In Ubuntu curvecpmessage is provided by nacl-tools package.

nacl-tools is:

NaCl (pronounced “salt”) is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc. NaCl’s goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools. Tools include basic programs to deploy CurveCP message-handling.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nacl-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install nacl-tools

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

sudo aptitude install nacl-tools

Summary

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