How To Install ikiwiki-hosting-dns on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki-hosting-dns on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ikiwiki-hosting-dns
ikiwiki-hosting-dns is:
A hosting interface for ikiwiki. Facilitates management of many separate ikiwiki sites, with capabilities including web-based signup to create new sites, easy support for branching sites, deleting sites, and transferring sites between servers. Ikiwiki-hosting was developed for Branchable.com.
This package should be installed on the master DNS server, only if you will be allowing ikiwiki-hosting to automatically manage DNS for sites. It contains the ikidns program.
There are three methods to install ikiwiki-hosting-dns on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ikiwiki-hosting-dns Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki-hosting-dns using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ikiwiki-hosting-dns
Install ikiwiki-hosting-dns Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki-hosting-dns using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ikiwiki-hosting-dns
Install ikiwiki-hosting-dns 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 ikiwiki-hosting-dns using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ikiwiki-hosting-dns
How To Uninstall ikiwiki-hosting-dns on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ikiwiki-hosting-dns package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ikiwiki-hosting-dns
Uninstall ikiwiki-hosting-dns And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ikiwiki-hosting-dns and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ikiwiki-hosting-dns
Remove ikiwiki-hosting-dns Configurations and Data
To remove ikiwiki-hosting-dns configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ikiwiki-hosting-dns
Remove ikiwiki-hosting-dns configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ikiwiki-hosting-dns configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ikiwiki-hosting-dns
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki-hosting-dns package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
