How To Install knot on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install knot on Rocky Linux 8. knot is High-performance authoritative DNS server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install knot on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `knot`

Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative DNS server implementation.

We can use yum or dnf to install knot on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install knot.

Install knot on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install knot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install knot

Install knot on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install knot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install knot

How To Uninstall knot on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the knot package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove knot

knot Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/knot
/etc/knot/knot.conf
/run/knot
/usr/bin/kzonecheck
/usr/bin/kzonesign
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/48553f6194514cd77f56698211bc97b8e17583
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/526db426336b5b7f1fc77be9f146bd3c15e1f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/47a3d9bc1a5278d3749b291fb2ab356691e4ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/675a9f85586aefe37726bcf2eccf22cd98dbd7
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/75d4130576b86e38664b971b8f52bd69d7fe95
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/7d8eac2b016dc30ee03fd3c0b994bb28ab0e6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/7a58da82194e646af9567ff757d273307e80ba
/usr/lib/systemd/system/knot.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/knot.conf
/usr/lib64/knot
/usr/lib64/knot/modules-3.0
/usr/sbin/kcatalogprint
/usr/sbin/keymgr
/usr/sbin/kjournalprint
/usr/sbin/knotc
/usr/sbin/knotd
/usr/share/doc/knot
/usr/share/doc/knot/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/knot/README.md
/usr/share/doc/knot/samples
/usr/share/doc/knot/samples/example.com.zone
/usr/share/licenses/knot
/usr/share/licenses/knot/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/kzonecheck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kzonesign.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/knot.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/kcatalogprint.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/keymgr.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/kjournalprint.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/knotc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/knotd.8.gz
/var/lib/knot

References

knot website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install knot on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.