dhid command not found

Introduction

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

dhid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhid: command not found

Solutions to dhid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dhid is provided by dhis-client package.

dhis-client is:

dhid is the DHIS client daemon. After setting up with a DHIS provider, each machine may run a dhid daemon (in background) in order to update its dynamic IP address within the server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dhis-client

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

You can also use apt command to install dhis-client.

sudo apt -y install dhis-client

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

sudo aptitude install dhis-client

Summary

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