dnsvi command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

dnsvi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dnsvi: command not found

Solutions to dnsvi: command not found

How To Fix dnsvi: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dnsvi is provided by dnsvi package.

dnsvi is:

dnsvi is a frontend for nsupdate. Given a DNS zone name, it uses dig -t AXFR to get all the records in a zone. It then spawns your favorite editor, and upon completion, builds a list of “update add” and “update delete” statements to feed to nsupdate

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install dnsvi

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install dnsvi.

sudo apt -y install dnsvi

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install dnsvi

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dnsvi command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.