dighosts command not found – CentOS 8

dighosts command not found – CentOS 8

 

I got the below error on my CentOS 8 server. dighosts command is provided by 3proxy package and it might not be installed on your server. Follow the below steps to install 3proxy package.

error :
bash: dighosts: command not found
 

Step 1 : Log into CentOS 8 server as ‘root’ user

Step 2 : Run the command ‘rpm -qa | grep -i 3proxy’ to check whether 3proxy is already installed or not

 

[root@server /]# rpm -qa| grep -i 3proxy
[root@server /]#

 

Steps 3 : Run the command ‘yum install epel-release -y’ to install EPEL repository

 

[root@server /]# yum install epel-release -y

===================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
===================================================================================================
Installing:
epel-release noarch 8-8.el8 extras 23 k

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================
Install 1 Package

Total download size: 23 k
Installed size: 32 k
Is this ok [y/N]:y

 

Steps 4 : Run ‘yum install 3proxy -y’ to install 3proxy package

 

# yum install 3proxy

Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
===================================================================================================
Installing:
3proxy x86_64 0.8.13-1.el8 epel 175 k

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================
Install 1 Package

Total download size: 175 k
Installed size: 559 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y

 
 

How to Download and install 3proxy rpm

 

Steps 1 : Log into CentOS 8 server via ssh as ‘root’ user

Steps 2 : Download 3proxy package from fedoraproject website using wget command

 

wget https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/8/Everything/x86_64/Packages/3/3proxy-0.8.13-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

 

Steps 3 : Run the command ‘rpm -Uvh 3proxy-0.8.13-1.el8.x86_64.rpm’ to install 3proxy rpm

 

# rpm -Uvh 3proxy-0.8.13-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
Verifying… ################################# [100%]
Preparing… ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing…
1:3proxy-0.8.13-1.el8 ################################# [100%]

 

Step 4 : Run the following command to verify installation by checking dighosts usage

 

# dighosts
Usage: dighosts [-m]
program retrieves requested and builds comma delimited list of networks
list than stored in
networks are searched in xxx.yyy.zzz.www/cidr format
switches:
-m networks are searched in xxx.yyy.zzz.www mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm format