dhcp_release6 command not found

Introduction

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

dhcp_release6: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhcp_release6: command not found

Solutions to dhcp_release6: command not found

How To Fix dhcp_release6: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dhcp_release6 is provided by dnsmasq-utils package.

dnsmasq-utils is:

Small utilities to query a DHCP server’s lease database and remove leases from it. These programs are distributed with dnsmasq and may not work correctly with other DHCP servers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dnsmasq-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install dnsmasq-utils.

sudo apt -y install dnsmasq-utils

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

sudo aptitude install dnsmasq-utils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dhcp_release6 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.