How To Install udns on CentOS 8

udns is DNS resolver library for both synchronous and asynchronous DNS queries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install udns on CentOS 8.

What is udns

udns is a resolver library for C (and C++) programs, and a collection of useful DNS resolver utilities.

We can use yum or dnf to install udns on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install udns.

Install udns 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 udns using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install udns

Install udns 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 udns using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install udns

How To Uninstall udns on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove udns

udns Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/dnsget
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/6d19c72e3c185ef1a525bdbee6d974c81d923d
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/f0f89b89cc881f956bb7c7efd47ba753606582
/usr/lib64/libudns.so.0
/usr/share/doc/udns
/usr/share/doc/udns/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/doc/udns/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/udns/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/udns/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/dnsget.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install udns on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.