How To Install unbound-host on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unbound-host
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is unbound-host
unbound-host is:
This package provides the ‘unbound-host’ program that is bundled with the Unbound domain name server. This version differs from the one provided in the package called host, which is from NIKHEF, and bind9-host, which is from ISC, and has a similar but different set of features and options.
Package: unbound-host Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.9.4-2ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: unbound Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: unbound packagers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 161 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libunbound8 (>= 1.8.0) Filename: pool/universe/u/unbound/unbound-host_1.9.4-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 43744 MD5sum: 62e24d06a82fd58b7b762484272f23a7 SHA1: 56ea4545f1dbb90dd4ca7d6aa0e71ff759a7d17f SHA256: 4993f037668cbbde293e2131e240bd07660c62f5dfd50afe0e2c1fa219a77396 Homepage: https://www.unbound.net/ Description-en: reimplementation of the ‘host’ command This package provides the ‘unbound-host’ program that is bundled with the Unbound domain name server. This version differs from the one provided in the package called host, which is from NIKHEF, and bind9-host, which is from ISC, and has a similar but different set of features and options.
There are three methods to install unbound-host
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install unbound-host Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unbound-host
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unbound-host
Install unbound-host Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unbound-host
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unbound-host
Install unbound-host 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install unbound-host
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unbound-host
How To Uninstall unbound-host on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the unbound-host
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unbound-host
Uninstall unbound-host And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unbound-host
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unbound-host
Remove unbound-host Configurations and Data
To remove unbound-host
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unbound-host
Remove unbound-host configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unbound-host
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unbound-host
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unbound-host
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.