ntpdc command not found

Introduction

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

ntpdc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ntpdc: command not found

Solutions to ntpdc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ntpdc is provided by ntp package.

ntp is:

NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks accurate by synchronizing them over the Internet or a local network, or by following an accurate hardware receiver that interprets GPS, DCF-77, NIST or similar time signals.

This package contains the NTP daemon and utility programs. An NTP daemon needs to be running on each host that is to have its clock accuracy controlled by NTP. The same NTP daemon is also used to provide NTP service to other hosts.

For more information about the NTP protocol and NTP server configuration and operation, install the package “ntp-doc”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ntp

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

You can also use apt command to install ntp.

sudo apt -y install ntp

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

sudo aptitude install ntp

Summary

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