dhcpoptinj command not found

Introduction

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

dhcpoptinj: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhcpoptinj: command not found

Solutions to dhcpoptinj: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dhcpoptinj is provided by dhcpoptinj package.

dhcpoptinj is:

dhcpoptinj is a simple utility for injecting DHCP options into DHCP packets. It is implemented using netfilter-queue and mangles packets, either by inserting new options or replacing existing options.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dhcpoptinj

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

You can also use apt command to install dhcpoptinj.

sudo apt -y install dhcpoptinj

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

sudo aptitude install dhcpoptinj

Summary

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