gwhois command not found

Introduction

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

gwhois: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gwhois: command not found

Solutions to gwhois: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gwhois is provided by gwhois package.

gwhois is:

gwhois is a generic whois client / server. This means that it know for many (virtually all) TLDs, IP-Ranges and Handles out there where to ask. It queries other whois-servers as well as web-lookup forms.

gwhois can be used as a client, but you can invoke it as a server (e.g. via inetd) as well for usage with a normal whois client.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gwhois

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

You can also use apt command to install gwhois.

sudo apt -y install gwhois

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

sudo aptitude install gwhois

Summary

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