nis software package provides clients and daemons for the Network Information Service (NIS), you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install nis
nis is installed in your system.
Make ensure the nis package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep nis *
You will get with nis package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Network |
| Package | nis |
| Version | 3.17-32ubuntu6 |
| Description | clients and daemons for the Network Information Service (NIS) |
| Sub Section | Net |
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