omshell command not found

Introduction

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

omshell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: omshell: command not found

Solutions to omshell: command not found

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

In Ubuntu omshell is provided by isc-dhcp-server package.

isc-dhcp-server is:

This is the Internet Software Consortium’s DHCP server.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol like BOOTP (actually dhcpd includes much of the functionality of bootpd). It gives client machines “leases” for IP addresses and can automatically set their network configuration.

This server can handle multiple ethernet interfaces.

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

sudo apt-get -y install isc-dhcp-server

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

You can also use apt command to install isc-dhcp-server.

sudo apt -y install isc-dhcp-server

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

sudo aptitude install isc-dhcp-server

Summary

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