How to install dig on CentOS?
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Solution 1
The DIG tool is a part of the BIND Utilities so you need to install them. To install the BIND Utilities, type the following:
$ dnf install bind-utils
Solution 2
You have already provided the specific answer, but if you are looking for other executables or files to see what package they are installed with, utilize yum whatprovides *relative/path/to/file*
, for example:
$ yum whatprovides '*bin/dig'
32:bind-utils-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.6.x86_64 : Utilities for querying DNS name servers
Repo : base
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/bin/dig
...
From man yum
:
provides or whatprovides
Is used to find out which package provides some feature or file. Just
use a specific name or a file-glob-syntax wildcards to list the pack-
ages available or installed that provide that feature or file.
Solution 3
On legacy systems you'll have to use yum
instead:
$ yum install bind-utils
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Author by
Mikael Dúi Bolinder
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Mikael Dúi Bolinder almost 2 years
I can't find the
dig
command on my new CentOS installation. I've trieddnf install dig
but it say that it cannot find the package.How do I install dig on CentOS?
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imriss over 4 yearsThanks, putting it all together:
yum install bind-utils
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fusion27 over 2 yearsConfirmed this also works in Amazon Linux 2