How To Install whois on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install whois on Fedora 34.
What is whois
Searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database. This version of the WHOIS client tries to guess the right server to ask for the specified object. If no guess can be made it will connect to whois.networksolutions.com for NIC handles or whois.arin.net for IPv4 addresses and network names.
We can use yum or dnf to install whois on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install whois.
Install whois on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install whois using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install whois
Install whois on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install whois using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install whois
How To Uninstall whois on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the whois package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove whois
whois Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/whois.conf
/usr/bin/whois
/usr/bin/whois.md
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/9a731549f4ed5ae682561027b0c168dd2cf478
/usr/share/doc/whois
/usr/share/doc/whois/README
/usr/share/doc/whois/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/whois
/usr/share/licenses/whois/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/whois/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/whois.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/whois.md.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/whois.conf.5.gz
/etc/whois.conf
/usr/bin/whois
/usr/bin/whois.md
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/b9d69fd21150bd7a8e64db6b05ea66e98c176c
/usr/share/doc/whois
/usr/share/doc/whois/README
/usr/share/doc/whois/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/whois
/usr/share/licenses/whois/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/whois/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/whois.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/whois.md.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/whois.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install whois on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.