How To Install libisccfg140 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisccfg140 on Debian 9. libisccfg140 is Config File Handling Library used by BIND

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisccfg140 on Debian 9.

What is libisccfg140

libisccfg140 is:

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet domain name server. BIND is the most widely-used name server software on the Internet, and is supported by the Internet Software Consortium, www.isc.org.

This package delivers the libisccfg shared library used by BIND’s daemons and clients to read and write ISC-style configuration files like named.conf and rndc.conf.

There are three methods to install libisccfg140 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libisccfg140 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libisccfg140 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libisccfg140

Install libisccfg140 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libisccfg140 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libisccfg140

Install libisccfg140 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libisccfg140 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libisccfg140

How To Uninstall libisccfg140 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libisccfg140 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libisccfg140

Uninstall libisccfg140 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libisccfg140 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libisccfg140

Remove libisccfg140 Configurations and Data

To remove libisccfg140 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libisccfg140

Remove libisccfg140 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libisccfg140 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libisccfg140

Dependencies

libisccfg140 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisccfg140 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.