wakeonlan command not found

Introduction

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

wakeonlan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wakeonlan: command not found

Solutions to wakeonlan: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wakeonlan is provided by wakeonlan package.

wakeonlan is:

With this package you can remotely wake up and power on machines which have motherboards or network cards that support ‘Wake-on-Lan’ packets.

The tool allows you to wake up a single machine, or a group of machines.

You need the MAC addresses of machines to construct the WOL packets, but, in contrast to ’etherwake’, you do not need root privileges to use the program itself as UDP packets are used.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wakeonlan

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

You can also use apt command to install wakeonlan.

sudo apt -y install wakeonlan

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

sudo aptitude install wakeonlan

Summary

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