randmac command not found

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

Introduction

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

randmac: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: randmac: command not found

In Ubuntu randmac is provided by randmac package.

randmac is:

randmac prints a random MAC address. This utility has been designed to give random MAC addresses to interfaces of virtual machines (e.g. qemu/kvm)

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

sudo apt-get -y install randmac

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

You can also use apt command to install randmac.

sudo apt -y install randmac

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

sudo aptitude install randmac

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