dhcp6relay command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dhcp6relay command not found error message

Introduction

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

dhcp6relay: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhcp6relay: command not found

Solutions to dhcp6relay: command not found

How To Fix dhcp6relay: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dhcp6relay is provided by wide-dhcpv6-relay package.

wide-dhcpv6-relay is:

This is the DHCPv6 relay from WIDE project.

DHCPv6 allows prefix delagation and host configuration for the IPv6 network protocol.

Multiple network interfaces are supported by this DHCPv6 package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wide-dhcpv6-relay

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

You can also use apt command to install wide-dhcpv6-relay.

sudo apt -y install wide-dhcpv6-relay

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

sudo aptitude install wide-dhcpv6-relay

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dhcp6relay command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.