How To Install stubby on Fedora 34

stubby is Application that act as a local DNS Privacy stub resolver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stubby on Fedora 34.

What is stubby

Stubby is a local DNS Privacy stub resolver (using DNS-over-TLS). Stubby encrypts DNS queries sent from a client machine to a DNS Privacy resolver increasing end user privacy.

We can use yum or dnf to install stubby on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stubby.

Install stubby on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install stubby using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stubby

Install stubby on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install stubby using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stubby

How To Uninstall stubby on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the stubby package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove stubby

stubby Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/stubby
/etc/stubby/stubby.yml
/usr/bin/stubby
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/22ea9dfde42ce699fb62ae12f401d51a8bbc0b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/stubby.service
/usr/share/doc/stubby
/usr/share/doc/stubby/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/stubby/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/stubby/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/stubby/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/stubby.1.gz
/var/cache/stubby

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stubby on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.