wsdd2 command not found

Introduction

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

wsdd2: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wsdd2: command not found

Solutions to wsdd2: command not found

How To Fix wsdd2: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wsdd2 is provided by wsdd2 package.

wsdd2 is:

Web Services on Devices (WSD) is a Microsoft API to simplify programming connections to web service enabled devices, such as Printers, Scanners and File Shares.

This daemon advertises and responds to probe requests from Windows clients looking for File Shares. It also implements LLMNR Multicast name lookup services.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wsdd2

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

You can also use apt command to install wsdd2.

sudo apt -y install wsdd2

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

sudo aptitude install wsdd2

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wsdd2 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.