ikidns command not found

Introduction

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

ikidns: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ikidns: command not found

Solutions to ikidns: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ikidns is provided by ikiwiki-hosting-dns package.

ikiwiki-hosting-dns is:

A hosting interface for ikiwiki. Facilitates management of many separate ikiwiki sites, with capabilities including web-based signup to create new sites, easy support for branching sites, deleting sites, and transferring sites between servers. Ikiwiki-hosting was developed for Branchable.com.

This package should be installed on the master DNS server, only if you will be allowing ikiwiki-hosting to automatically manage DNS for sites. It contains the ikidns program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ikiwiki-hosting-dns

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

You can also use apt command to install ikiwiki-hosting-dns.

sudo apt -y install ikiwiki-hosting-dns

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

sudo aptitude install ikiwiki-hosting-dns

Summary

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