primesieve command not found

Introduction

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

primesieve: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: primesieve: command not found

Solutions to primesieve: command not found

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

In Ubuntu primesieve is provided by primesieve-bin package.

primesieve-bin is:

primesieve is a free software program and C/C++ library that generates primes using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. primesieve can generate primes and prime k-tuplets up to nearly 2^64.

See http://primesieve.org/ for more information.

This package provides the command line utility primesieve.

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

sudo apt-get -y install primesieve-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install primesieve-bin.

sudo apt -y install primesieve-bin

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

sudo aptitude install primesieve-bin

Summary

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