How To Install knot on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install knot
on Debian 9.
What is knot
knot is:
Knot DNS is a fast, authoritative only, high performance, feature full and open source name server.
Knot DNS is developed by CZ.NIC Labs, the R&D department of .CZ registry and hence is well suited to run anything from the root zone, the top-level domain, to many smaller standard domain names.
There are three methods to install knot
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install knot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install knot
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install knot
Install knot Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install knot
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install knot
Install knot 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 knot
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install knot
How To Uninstall knot on Debian 9
To uninstall only the knot
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove knot
Uninstall knot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall knot
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove knot
Remove knot Configurations and Data
To remove knot
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge knot
Remove knot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove knot
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge knot
Dependencies
knot have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- libdnssec2
- libknot5
- libzscanner1
- lsb-base
- python
- python-yaml
- init-system-helpers
- libc6
- libedit2
- libgnutls30
- libsystemd0
- liburcu4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install knot
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.