Installation of dhcpcd Before installing dhcpcd, you need to download dhcpcd-&dhcpcd-version;.patch.bz2 from and decompress it to your source directory. Install dhcpcd by running the following commands: patch -Np1 -i ../dhcpcd-&dhcpcd-version;.patch && ./configure --prefix="" --sysconfdir=/var/lib \ --mandir=/usr/share/man && make && make install