dkms command not found

Introduction

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

dkms: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dkms: command not found

Solutions to dkms: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dkms is provided by dkms package.

dkms is:

DKMS is a framework designed to allow individual kernel modules to be upgraded without changing the whole kernel. It is also very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dkms

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

You can also use apt command to install dkms.

sudo apt -y install dkms

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

sudo aptitude install dkms

Summary

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