How to install dig on Arch Linux
If you haven't picked up on it by now, I am a huge fan of the command-line. Simple applications, they do one thing really well and they can all be piped together to increase their power.
One command-line application that I use on the regular is dig. The dig
command allows you to do DNS lookups. This comes in handy when verifying things
like DMARC and SPF records, as well as if a sub-domain is properly configured.
While the official Arch Repository combined Arch User Repository has everything
I could ever want and more, sometimes the package names aren't as straight
forward as I'd prefer. One such instance is with the dig command.
If you were to try to install the package dig you'll come up short:
% pacman -S dig
error: target not found: dig
% yay -S dig
-> No AUR package found for dig
there is nothing to do
So what package needs to be installed to get the dig command?
Turns out, the dig command, which is a DNS utility, lives inside of the bind
package:
% sudo pacman -S bind
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (3) jemalloc-1:5.3.0-3 libmaxminddb-1.7.1-1 bind-9.18.19-1
Total Installed Size: 9.10 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(3/3) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100%
(3/3) checking package integrity [######################] 100%
(3/3) loading package files [######################] 100%
(3/3) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100%
(3/3) checking available disk space [######################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/3) installing libmaxminddb [######################] 100%
Optional dependencies for libmaxminddb
geoip2-database: IP geolocation databases
(2/3) installing jemalloc [######################] 100%
Optional dependencies for jemalloc
perl: for jeprof [installed]
(3/3) installing bind [######################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/4) Creating system user accounts...
(2/4) Reloading system manager configuration...
(3/4) Creating temporary files...
(4/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
Once the bind package is installed, you should have the dig command
available:
% dig -v
DiG 9.18.19