ratpoints-debug command not found

Introduction

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

ratpoints-debug: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ratpoints-debug: command not found

Solutions to ratpoints-debug: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ratpoints-debug 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-debug command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.