How To Install tinydyndns on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinydyndns
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tinydyndns
tinydyndns is:
tinydyndns is a simple but powerful dynamic DNS solution that uses djbdns. It cooperates with the djbdns package to publish dynamic IP addresses authenticated through POP connections. On successfully authenticated POP connections, the tinydyndns-update program manipulates tinydns’ constant database “data.cdb” directly without rebuilding it; this makes the dynamic DNS solution use very few system resources.
Using a POP service for authentication saves the work for installing special client software, since POP clients are available for every common network-aware operating system. To provide the DNS and POP services, tinydyndns cooperates with djbdns, mailfront, and cvm.
The POP service can easily be replaced with other services that provide authentication, such as APOP, IMAPS, …
There are three methods to install tinydyndns
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tinydyndns Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tinydyndns
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tinydyndns
Install tinydyndns Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tinydyndns
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tinydyndns
Install tinydyndns 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tinydyndns
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tinydyndns
How To Uninstall tinydyndns on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tinydyndns
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tinydyndns
Uninstall tinydyndns And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tinydyndns
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tinydyndns
Remove tinydyndns Configurations and Data
To remove tinydyndns
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tinydyndns
Remove tinydyndns configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tinydyndns
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tinydyndns
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinydyndns
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.