tinydyndns-conf command not found

Introduction

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

tinydyndns-conf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tinydyndns-conf: command not found

Solutions to tinydyndns-conf: command not found

How To Fix tinydyndns-conf: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu tinydyndns-conf is provided by tinydyndns package.

tinydyndns is:

tinydyndns is a simple but powerful dynamic DNS solution that uses djbdns. It cooperates with the djbdns package to publish dynamic IP addresses authenticated through POP connections. On successfully authenticated POP connections, the tinydyndns-update program manipulates tinydns’ constant database “data.cdb” directly without rebuilding it; this makes the dynamic DNS solution use very few system resources.

Using a POP service for authentication saves the work for installing special client software, since POP clients are available for every common network-aware operating system. To provide the DNS and POP services, tinydyndns cooperates with djbdns, mailfront, and cvm.

The POP service can easily be replaced with other services that provide authentication, such as APOP, IMAPS, …

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

sudo apt-get -y install tinydyndns

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

You can also use apt command to install tinydyndns.

sudo apt -y install tinydyndns

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

sudo aptitude install tinydyndns

Summary

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