ddclient command not found

Introduction

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

ddclient: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ddclient: command not found

Solutions to ddclient: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ddclient is provided by ddclient package.

ddclient is:

This package provides a client to update dynamic IP addresses with several dynamic DNS service providers, such as DynDNS.com.

This makes it possible to use a fixed hostname (such as myhost.dyndns.org) to access a machine with a dynamic IP address.

This client supports both dynamic and (near) static services, as well as MX record and alternative name management. It caches the address, and only attempts the update when it has changed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ddclient

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

You can also use apt command to install ddclient.

sudo apt -y install ddclient

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

sudo aptitude install ddclient

Summary

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