ods-control command not found

Introduction

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

ods-control: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ods-control: command not found

Solutions to ods-control: command not found

How To Fix ods-control: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ods-control is provided by opendnssec-common package.

opendnssec-common is:

OpenDNSSEC is a complete DNSSEC zone signing system which is very easy to use with stability and security in mind. There are a lot of details in signing zone files with DNSSEC and OpenDNSSEC covers most of it.

This package contains common configuration files and creates default user, group and opendnssec directories.

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

sudo apt-get -y install opendnssec-common

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

You can also use apt command to install opendnssec-common.

sudo apt -y install opendnssec-common

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

sudo aptitude install opendnssec-common

Summary

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