dhcpcd command not found

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

Introduction

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

dhcpcd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhcpcd: command not found

In Ubuntu dhcpcd is provided by dhcpcd5 package.

dhcpcd5 is:

dhcpcd is a one stop network management daemon which includes

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

sudo apt-get -y install dhcpcd5

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

You can also use apt command to install dhcpcd5.

sudo apt -y install dhcpcd5

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

sudo aptitude install dhcpcd5

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