kea-dhcp6 command not found

Introduction

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

kea-dhcp6: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kea-dhcp6: command not found

Solutions to kea-dhcp6: command not found

How To Fix kea-dhcp6: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu kea-dhcp6 is provided by kea-dhcp6-server package.

kea-dhcp6-server is:

Kea is an IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP server developed by Internet Systems Consortium providing a very high-performance with PostgreSQL, MySQL and memfile backends.

This package provides the IPv6 DHCP server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kea-dhcp6-server

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

You can also use apt command to install kea-dhcp6-server.

sudo apt -y install kea-dhcp6-server

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

sudo aptitude install kea-dhcp6-server

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix kea-dhcp6 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.