How to install “dig”: -bash: /usr/bin/dig: No such file or directory

Written By: Chris Schuld Friday, November 14th, 2008

If you are missing the dig command it means you are missing a package called bind-utils. To install this package use yum to install bind utils:

yum install bind-utils

Or if you do not have access to yum, maybe from a hosted VPS solution you can grab the RPM packages (this is 100% assuming you are CentOS):

rpm -i http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/bind-utils-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm

Or maybe you want to install the entire bind/named system:

rpm -i http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/bind-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -i http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/bind-chroot-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -i http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/bind-libs-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -i http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/caching-nameserver-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -i http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/bind-utils-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm

Categories: CentOS5

One Response to " How to install “dig”: -bash: /usr/bin/dig: No such file or directory "

Dean says:

August 2, 2010 at 8:23 pm

Thanks, exactly as you described on a VPS I didn’t have Dig, painfull.

Confirm this works on Fedora Core12 as well.

Dean.

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