whois on linux

2008-06-19

installing whois on a linux box

# sudo apt-get install jwhois

# yum install jwhois

or

browse to: http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jwhois.html

find the latest version and

# wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/j/jwhois/jwhois_4.0.orig.tar.gz

tar xf jwhois_4.0.orig.tar.gz

# cd jwhois_4.0/

# ./configure

# make install

get your environment variables / path with:

# env
:: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

# cd /usr/local/bin

create a symbolic link so you can call whois url

# ln -s jwhois whois

then put the link in the path

# mv whois /usr/local/bin