sympow command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sympow command not found error message

Introduction

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

sympow: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sympow: command not found

Solutions to sympow: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sympow is provided by sympow package.

sympow is:

SYMPOW is a mathematical program to compute special values of symmetric power elliptic curve L-functions; it can compute up to about 64 digits of precision.

This package provides the SYMPOW program itself.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sympow

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

You can also use apt command to install sympow.

sudo apt -y install sympow

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

sudo aptitude install sympow

Summary

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