How To Install libisccfg163 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libisccfg163 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libisccfg163 is Config File Handling Library used by BIND

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisccfg163 on Debian 10.

What is libisccfg163

libisccfg163 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 libisccfg163 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libisccfg163 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libisccfg163 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libisccfg163

Install libisccfg163 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libisccfg163 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libisccfg163

Install libisccfg163 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 libisccfg163 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libisccfg163

How To Uninstall libisccfg163 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libisccfg163 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libisccfg163

Uninstall libisccfg163 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libisccfg163 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libisccfg163

Remove libisccfg163 Configurations and Data

To remove libisccfg163 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libisccfg163

Remove libisccfg163 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libisccfg163 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libisccfg163

Dependencies

libisccfg163 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisccfg163 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.