How To Install whois on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install whois in Fedora 36. whois is Improved WHOIS client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install whois on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install whois.

Install whois on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install whois using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install whois

Install whois on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

To uninstall only the whois package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove whois

whois Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/whois.conf
/usr/bin/whois
/usr/bin/whois.md
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/7323b368c717a85a8018d9cd912e2705524bf1
/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/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/b7230efbf7817d05149955d792da3cc281b245
/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

whois website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install whois on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).