dhcpy6d command not found

Introduction

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

dhcpy6d: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhcpy6d: command not found

Solutions to dhcpy6d: command not found

How To Fix dhcpy6d: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dhcpy6d is provided by dhcpy6d package.

dhcpy6d is:

Dhcpy6d delivers IPv6 addresses for DHCPv6 clients, which can be identified by DUID, hostname or MAC address as in the good old IPv4 days. It allows easy dualstack transition, addresses may be generated randomly, by range, by arbitrary ID or MAC address. Clients can get more than one address, leases and client configuration can be stored in databases and DNS can be updated dynamically.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dhcpy6d

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

You can also use apt command to install dhcpy6d.

sudo apt -y install dhcpy6d

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

sudo aptitude install dhcpy6d

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dhcpy6d command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.