How To Install stubby on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stubby on CentOS 8.
What is stubby
Stubby is a local DNS Privacy stub resolver (using DNS-over-TLS). Stubby encrypts DNS queries sent from a client machine to a DNS Privacy resolver increasing end user privacy.
We can use yum or dnf to install stubby on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stubby.
Install stubby on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install stubby using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stubby
Install stubby on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install stubby using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stubby
How To Uninstall stubby on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the stubby package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stubby
stubby Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/stubby
/etc/stubby/stubby.yml
/usr/bin/stubby
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/270dcf2350dda014d32f2f7b21e924fbe8ffe9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/stubby.service
/usr/share/doc/stubby
/usr/share/doc/stubby/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/stubby/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/stubby/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/stubby/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/stubby.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stubby on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.