dicod command not found

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

Introduction

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

dicod: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dicod: command not found

Solutions to dicod: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dicod is provided by dicod package.

dicod is:

GNU Dico is an implementation of the DICT protocol as defined in RFC 2229. It is fully modular: the daemon itself (dicod) provides only the server functionality, and knows nothing about database formats. Actual searches are performed by functions supplied in loadable modules. A single module can serve one or more databases.

This package contains the dicod server, in addition to the following plugins:

  • ldap: provides LDAP support
  • substr: provides a substring search strategy
  • stratall: provides the ‘all’ search strategy

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

sudo apt-get -y install dicod

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

You can also use apt command to install dicod.

sudo apt -y install dicod

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

sudo aptitude install dicod

Summary

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