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How to install whois on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

Posted: 01 Oct 2019 12:22 PM PDT

I deployed RHEL 8 in the cloud server. However, I am unable to find the whois command on my newly created RHEL 8 Linux server. It says '-bash: whois: command not found' I tried yum install whois, but it failed too. How do I install whois command on RHEL/CentOS 8 Linux using the command line?

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Linux / Unix - Quickly list all available fonts

Posted: 01 Oct 2019 10:47 AM PDT

How To Install MariaDB on CentOS 8

Posted: 01 Oct 2019 08:39 AM PDT

I am a new to MariaDB server and CentOS 8 sysadmin. How do I install MariaDB on CentOS 8 Linux server using the yum command?

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pfetch Linux and Unix hardware information tool

Posted: 30 Sep 2019 10:53 PM PDT

The neofetch command like utility written in a bash shell. The main purpose of neofetch is to be used in screenshots to display other users what operating system or Linux distro you are using including theme, icons, hardware config and more. Now we have another tool called pfetch. It is a pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh. Let us see how to install and use pfetch Linux and Unix hardware information tool.

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