How To Install stubby on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install stubby on Rocky Linux 8. stubby is Application that act as a local DNS Privacy stub resolver

Introduction

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

What is stubby

Stubby is a local DNS Privacy stub resolver (using DNS-over-TLS). Stubby encrypts DNS queries sent from a client machine to a DNS Privacy resolver increasing end user privacy.

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

Install stubby 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 stubby using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stubby

Install stubby 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 stubby using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stubby

How To Uninstall stubby on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove stubby

stubby Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/stubby
/etc/stubby/stubby.yml
/usr/bin/stubby
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/6c69b46aea8baf1a06d2ede86a4562555f5b31
/usr/lib/systemd/system/stubby.service
/usr/share/doc/stubby
/usr/share/doc/stubby/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/stubby/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/stubby/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/stubby/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/stubby.1.gz
/var/cache/stubby

References

Summary

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