How to live without net-tools
The main headache of today is installing and running the latest version of Ubuntu Lts in a VMware. Since Ubuntu version 18.04 (maybe from 17.10), there are no /etc/network/interfaces and net-tools with the usual ifconfig and route commands. They were replaced by netplan and iproute2. Now this is what network configuration looks like: alex@ubuntu-server-lts:~$ ip -c addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: ens33: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:0c:29:28:ef:9a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.15.129/24 brd 192.168.15.255 scope global dynamic ens33 valid_lft 1575sec preferred_lft 1575sec inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe28:ef9a/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever alex@ubuntu-server-lts:~$ ls /etc/netplan 00-installer-config.yaml alex@ubuntu-server-lts:~$ cat /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml # This is the network config written by 'subiquity' network: ethernets: ens33: dhcp4: true addresses: [] optional: true version: 2 In this case the ip-address is received from dhcp. For now to set the ip-address, you need to write something like: ...