How To Install inadyn on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install inadyn
on Debian 11.
What is inadyn
inadyn is:
With this package the user can have an Internet name for his host even though he might not have a name server or a static IP. It works by being a client of a supposedly open name server and updating the server’s records when the need arise. A list of the servers that are supported is:
- http://www.dyndns.org
- http://freedns.afraid.org
- http:// www.zoneedit.com
- http://www.no-ip.com
- http://www.easydns.com
- http://www.tzo.com
- http://www.3322.org
- http://www.dnsomatic.com
- http://www.tunnelbroker.net
- http://dns.he.net
- http://www.dynsip.org
- http://www.sitelutions.com
- http://www.dnsexit.com
- http://www.changeip.com
Some of the services of these servers are free of charge.
This is a command line tool that is written in portable ANSI C with a little OS abstraction layer. It can maintain multiple host names with the same IP address, and has a web based IP detection which runs well behind a NAT router.
There are three methods to install inadyn
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install inadyn Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install inadyn
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install inadyn
Install inadyn Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install inadyn
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install inadyn
Install inadyn 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 inadyn
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install inadyn
How To Uninstall inadyn on Debian 11
To uninstall only the inadyn
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove inadyn
Uninstall inadyn And Its Dependencies
To uninstall inadyn
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove inadyn
Remove inadyn Configurations and Data
To remove inadyn
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge inadyn
Remove inadyn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove inadyn
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inadyn
Dependencies
inadyn have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install inadyn
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.