How To Install nsd on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nsd
on Debian 9.
What is nsd
nsd is:
NSD is a fast, authoritative only, high performance, simple and open source name server.
There are three methods to install nsd
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 nsd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nsd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nsd
Install nsd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nsd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nsd
Install nsd 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 nsd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nsd
How To Uninstall nsd on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nsd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nsd
Uninstall nsd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nsd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nsd
Remove nsd Configurations and Data
To remove nsd
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nsd
Remove nsd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nsd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nsd
Dependencies
nsd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nsd
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.