How To Install smartdns on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smartdns
on Debian 12.
What is smartdns
smartdns is:
SmartDNS is a local DNS server. SmartDNS accepts DNS query requests from local clients, obtains DNS query results from multiple upstream DNS servers, and returns the fastest access results to clients. Avoiding DNS pollution and improving network access speed, supports high-performance ad filtering. Unlike dnsmasq’s all-servers, smartdns returns the fastest access resolution.
There are three methods to install smartdns
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 smartdns Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install smartdns
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install smartdns
Install smartdns Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install smartdns
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install smartdns
Install smartdns 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 smartdns
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install smartdns
How To Uninstall smartdns on Debian 12
To uninstall only the smartdns
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove smartdns
Uninstall smartdns And Its Dependencies
To uninstall smartdns
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove smartdns
Remove smartdns Configurations and Data
To remove smartdns
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge smartdns
Remove smartdns configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove smartdns
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smartdns
Dependencies
smartdns have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smartdns
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.