smartdns command not found

Introduction

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

smartdns: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smartdns: command not found

Solutions to smartdns: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smartdns is provided by smartdns package.

smartdns is:

SmartDNS is a local DNS server. SmartDNS accepts DNS query requests from local clients, obtains DNS query results from multiple upstream DNS servers, and returns the fastest access results to clients. Avoiding DNS pollution and improving network access speed, supports high-performance ad filtering. Unlike dnsmasq’s all-servers, smartdns returns the fastest access resolution.

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

sudo apt-get -y install smartdns

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

You can also use apt command to install smartdns.

sudo apt -y install smartdns

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

sudo aptitude install smartdns

Summary

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