unbound-host command not found

Introduction

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

unbound-host: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: unbound-host: command not found

Solutions to unbound-host: command not found

How To Fix unbound-host: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu unbound-host is provided by unbound-host package.

unbound-host is:

This package provides the ‘unbound-host’ program that is bundled with the Unbound domain name server. This version differs from the one provided in the package called host, which is from NIKHEF, and bind9-host, which is from ISC, and has a similar but different set of features and options.

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

sudo apt-get -y install unbound-host

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

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

sudo apt -y install unbound-host

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

sudo aptitude install unbound-host

Summary

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