host command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix host command not found error message

Introduction

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

host: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: host: command not found

In Ubuntu host is provided by bind9-host package.

bind9-host is:

This package provides the ‘host’ DNS lookup utility in the form that is bundled with the BIND 9 sources.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bind9-host

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

You can also use apt command to install bind9-host.

sudo apt -y install bind9-host

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

sudo aptitude install bind9-host

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