How To Install skydns on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install skydns
on Debian 9.
What is skydns
skydns is:
SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd. It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights.
There are three methods to install skydns
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 skydns Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install skydns
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install skydns
Install skydns Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install skydns
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install skydns
Install skydns 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 skydns
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install skydns
How To Uninstall skydns on Debian 9
To uninstall only the skydns
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove skydns
Uninstall skydns And Its Dependencies
To uninstall skydns
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove skydns
Remove skydns Configurations and Data
To remove skydns
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge skydns
Remove skydns configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove skydns
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skydns
Dependencies
skydns have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install skydns
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.