How To Install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig on Kali Linux.

What is dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig

dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig is:

This package provides a hook script to serve dns-01 challenge responses for dehydrated.

It uses the dnspython API to perform dynamic DNS updates, creating a temporary TXT record for the given domain, thereby proving ownership of the domain. It requires a DNS-server capable of performing dynamic DNS updates, like bind9. There is no need for the DNS-server to run on the local machine.

This is useful if you want to create ACME certificates for servers that do not serve HTTP and/or are not exposed to the public internet. Another important use case are wildcard certificates.

There are three methods to install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig

Install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig

Install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig

How To Uninstall dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig

Uninstall dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig

Remove dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig Configurations and Data

To remove dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig

Remove dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig

Dependencies

dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig have the following dependencies:

• dehydrated
• python3
• python3-dnspython

References

• dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.