How To Install whois on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install whois on Rocky Linux 8. whois is Improved WHOIS client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install whois on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install whois.

Install whois on Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove whois

whois Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/whois.conf
/usr/bin/whois
/usr/bin/whois.md
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/a28d42218bd1ba4f67df3ae85ff043e951bbda
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.