dhcp-add-wpad command not found

Introduction

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

dhcp-add-wpad: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhcp-add-wpad: command not found

Solutions to dhcp-add-wpad: command not found

How To Fix dhcp-add-wpad: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dhcp-add-wpad is provided by dbab package.

dbab is:

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

sudo apt-get -y install dbab

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

You can also use apt command to install dbab.

sudo apt -y install dbab

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

sudo aptitude install dbab

Summary

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