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I upgraded wheezy to jessie and there is no dhcpcd installed. I installed it with apt-get install dhcpcd but I cannot start the service. When I do sudo service dhcpcd start I get Failed to start dhcpcd.service: Unit dhcpcd.service failed to load: No such file or directory. Is there a way to manually install dhcpcd?

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  • What service do you want to start? dhcpcd is a DHCP client.
    – nsilent22
    Feb 21, 2016 at 21:57
  • Which runs as a daemon service: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dhcpcd
    – Reto
    Feb 21, 2016 at 22:10
  • So maybe you are looking for dhcpcd5 package?
    – nsilent22
    Feb 21, 2016 at 22:14
  • systemctl enable dhcpcd@eth0 (if it is eth0)
    – Ghanima ♦
    Feb 21, 2016 at 22:24

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Do sudo apt-get install dhcpcd5

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  • Does that also start the service?
    – Ghanima ♦
    Feb 21, 2016 at 22:19
  • @Ghanima: Yes it does.
    – nsilent22
    Feb 21, 2016 at 22:21
  • Ok, cool.... :)
    – Ghanima ♦
    Feb 21, 2016 at 22:28
  • Installing worked but now there is an error: â— dhcpcd.service - dhcpcd on all interfaces Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2016-02-22 20:25:52 CET; 1min 13s ago Process: 416 ExecStart=/sbin/dhcpcd -q -b (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    – Reto
    Feb 22, 2016 at 19:29
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    @Reto: Did you removed old dhcpcd package? I think you messed up a little your installation, because this message: dhcpcd[416]: Usage: dhcpcd [options] <interface> looks like system tried to run dhcpcd from dhcpcd package, not from dhcpcd5 package. Just apt-get remove dhcpcd and you'll be fine.
    – nsilent22
    Feb 22, 2016 at 19:33

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