How to Fix – ‘ifconfig Command Not Found’ on CentOS 8

The network command line tool ‘ifconfig’ is not available on CentOS 8 minimal installation. Ifconfig command is part of net-tools package and it can be installed from CentOS 8 default BaseOS repository on CentOS 8. 

 

This article describes How to Fix – ‘ifconfig Command Not Found’ on CentOS 8.

[root@linuxcnf ~]# ifconfig -bash: ifconfig: command not found [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Step 1. Install Package: Run the following dnf command to install net-tools package:

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# dnf install net-tools -y ……………………. Installed:   net-tools-2.0-0.52.20160912git.el8.x86_64   Complete! [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Step 2. Validate the Installation: Run the following commands to validate the installation and ‘ifconfig’ command:

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# which ifconfig /usr/sbin/ifconfig [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# ifconfig enp0s3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500         inet 192.168.1.13  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255         inet6 fe80::86e:1ab5:b2fe:b2bd  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>         ether 08:00:27:09:ac:1e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)         RX packets 1726  bytes 455216 (444.5 KiB)         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0         TX packets 555  bytes 54046 (52.7 KiB)         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0 ……………………. [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Done!!! Now the ‘ifconfig’ command is available to use on CentOS 8.