How To Install unbound on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unbound
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is unbound
unbound is:
Unbound is a recursive-only caching DNS server which can perform DNSSEC validation of results. It implements only a minimal amount of authoritative service to prevent leakage to the root nameservers: forward lookups for localhost, reverse for 127.0.0.1 and ::1, and NXDOMAIN for zones served by AS112. Stub and forward zones are supported.
This package contains the unbound daemon.
There are three methods to install unbound
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unbound
Install unbound Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unbound
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unbound
Install unbound 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unbound
How To Uninstall unbound on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the unbound
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unbound
Uninstall unbound And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unbound
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unbound
Remove unbound Configurations and Data
To remove unbound
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unbound
Remove unbound configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unbound
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unbound
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unbound
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.