How To Install hellfire on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hellfire on Debian 12.
What is hellfire
hellfire is:
Hellfire is a parallelised DNS resolver. It is written in Go and for the purpose of generating input lists to PATHspider, though may be useful for other applications. It supports fetching commonly used domain lists in Internet Measurement Research.
Additional metadata may be looked up from RIPEstat using canid integration.
There are three methods to install hellfire on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hellfire Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hellfire using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hellfire
Install hellfire Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hellfire using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hellfire
Install hellfire 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 hellfire using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hellfire
How To Uninstall hellfire on Debian 12
To uninstall only the hellfire package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hellfire
Uninstall hellfire And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hellfire and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hellfire
Remove hellfire Configurations and Data
To remove hellfire configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hellfire
Remove hellfire configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hellfire configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hellfire
Dependencies
hellfire have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hellfire package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.