whois command not working

January 24, 2014 21.2k views
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Hello, I'm trying to run whois (whois mysite.com) and I'm getting the following message: No command 'whois' found, did you mean: Command 'rwhois' from package 'socks4-clients' (universe) Command 'jwhois' from package 'jwhois' (universe) Command 'cwhois' from package 'asused' (universe) Command 'gwhois' from package 'gwhois' (universe) whois: command not found I'm sure it worked before. I'm setup using LEMP on Ubuntu 12.04.3 x64 Thank you.
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chrischapmanpw January 24, 2014
It does not come by default on 12.04

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install whois
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info427180 January 24, 2014
Hey Chris,

That's awesome, exactly what I needed. Thanks so much for your help!

Tony
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chrischapmanpw January 24, 2014
You are welcome Tony!
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