How To Install bind9utils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bind9utils
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is bind9utils
bind9utils is:
This is a transitional package. It can safely be removed.
Package: bind9utils Architecture: all Version: 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: bind9 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian DNS Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 44 Depends: bind9-utils Filename: pool/universe/b/bind9/bind9utils_9.16.1-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 2748 MD5sum: 86cdef5cdb6e8cdf0c5426921b7ff0a3 SHA1: 27f7b33d6a9351d840d08be6083355dd9c544f18 SHA256: 10afbdf6986cece11809e117f99ee8628628a3d7be2acf87af5054b4a47c5a0b Homepage: https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/ Description-en: Transitional package for bind9-utils This is a transitional package. It can safely be removed.
There are three methods to install bind9utils
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 bind9utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bind9utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bind9utils
Install bind9utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bind9utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bind9utils
Install bind9utils 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 bind9utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bind9utils
How To Uninstall bind9utils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the bind9utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bind9utils
Uninstall bind9utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bind9utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bind9utils
Remove bind9utils Configurations and Data
To remove bind9utils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bind9utils
Remove bind9utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bind9utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bind9utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bind9utils
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.