How do I install dig?

Question

How do I install dig (the DNS lookup tool)? I can't figure out what the package name is.

Strange that you don't have it. Package ubuntu-standard directly depends on dnsutils which contains dig, nslookup and nsupdate utilities. Is your system ok? Can you try sudo apt-get install ubuntu-standard? — ulidtko, Feb 07 '11 at 02:39
It's probably a "minimized" Ubuntu... the only tool left there is pretty much apt (as well as ssh/scp if you've ticked for installing SSH server), not even vi, nano nor ping! From there, the question is to find the names of the packages, dnsutils in this case. — Marabiloso, Dec 19 '23 at 10:56

score 253 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 11 '17 at 19:00

253

You can install it by opening a terminal and typing

sudo apt-get install dnsutils

Or via the Ubuntu Software Center by clicking bellow:

For future reference, I found this out by doing a quick search with apt-cache:

apt-cache search dns dig

And then verified with aptitude.

edited Mar 11 '17 at 19:00

Community

1

answered Feb 07 '11 at 00:40

Oli

293,335

A much more easier command to determine the package, provided you know complete path of file you are searching is $ sudo dpkg -S /usr/bin/dig dnsutils: /usr/bin/dig – Jamess Feb 07 '11 at 04:53
10

@James, this command will only work if you had dig already installed, while Oli's will search all available packages. – Javier Rivera Feb 07 '11 at 08:20
5

@Jamess You can search by filename on packages.ubuntu.com. And FWIW, you don't need sudo to run dpkg -S. – Iain Lane Feb 07 '11 at 09:58

Eric Johnson · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-24T16:46:36.147

50

sudo apt-get install dnsutils

To find out which package a file is in you can do

sudo apt-cache search dig

Sometimes that works, but in this case it was useless. You can search for which package a specific file is in using the 'Search the contents of packages' search form here:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/

edited Oct 24 '12 at 16:46

answered Feb 07 '11 at 00:37

Eric Johnson

6,235

1

As @oli said in their answer, adding keywords can make apt-cache search more useful; in this case the combination of dns and dig keywords returned a much smaller list (about a dozen packages) than either by itself (hundreds for dns, almost a thousand for dig). – Mark Reed Jun 19 '17 at 14:38

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '13 at 15:05

9

Another command:

apt-file search /usr/bin/dig

You should install apt-file and update it beforehand:

sudo apt-get install apt-file
sudo apt-file update

answered Jun 08 '13 at 15:05

Tsutomu

286
4
5

How do I install dig?

3 Answers3

Linked