update-ieee-data command not found

Introduction

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

update-ieee-data: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update-ieee-data: command not found

Solutions to update-ieee-data: command not found

How To Fix update-ieee-data: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu update-ieee-data is provided by ieee-data package.

ieee-data is:

Provide the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) and Individual Address Block (IAB) listings of identifiers assigned by IEEE Standards Association.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ieee-data

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

You can also use apt command to install ieee-data.

sudo apt -y install ieee-data

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

sudo aptitude install ieee-data

Summary

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