dhcp6s command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dhcp6s command not found error message

Introduction

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

dhcp6s: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhcp6s: command not found

In Ubuntu dhcp6s is provided by wide-dhcpv6-server package.

wide-dhcpv6-server is:

This is the DHCPv6 server 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-server

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

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

sudo apt -y install wide-dhcpv6-server

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

sudo aptitude install wide-dhcpv6-server

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dhcp6s command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.