How To Install dns-browse on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dns-browse
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dns-browse
dns-browse is:
This package provides two programs to make user lookups on DNS servers: dns_tree and dns_browse.
dns_tree is a command-line-based front-end to dig. It replaces the several dig invocations necessary to fetch a zone, and it formats the output in a somewhat sensible hierarchical style (a tree).
dns_browse is a GUI front-end to dns_tree. It allows point-and-click DNS browsing and makes it easy to expand/compress hierarchies in one or more DNS zones.
There are three methods to install dns-browse
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 dns-browse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dns-browse
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dns-browse
Install dns-browse Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dns-browse
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dns-browse
Install dns-browse 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 dns-browse
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dns-browse
How To Uninstall dns-browse on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dns-browse
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dns-browse
Uninstall dns-browse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dns-browse
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dns-browse
Remove dns-browse Configurations and Data
To remove dns-browse
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dns-browse
Remove dns-browse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dns-browse
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dns-browse
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dns-browse
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.