dhisd command not found

Introduction

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

dhisd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhisd: command not found

Solutions to dhisd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dhisd is provided by dhis-server package.

dhis-server is:

DHIS is a client-server architecture meant to update databases for systems which are assigned a dynamic IP[v4] address.

By the means of a DHIS client a host which is assigned a dynamic IP address (either from its ISP or from DHCP) is able to communicate with a DHIS server in order to advertise its newly acquired IP address.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dhis-server

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

You can also use apt command to install dhis-server.

sudo apt -y install dhis-server

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

sudo aptitude install dhis-server

Summary

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