How To Install udns on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install udns on Rocky Linux 8. udns is DNS resolver library for both synchronous and asynchronous DNS queries

Introduction

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

What is `udns`

udns is a resolver library for C (and C++) programs, and a collection of useful DNS resolver utilities.

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

Install udns 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 udns using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install udns

Install udns 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 udns using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install udns

How To Uninstall udns on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove udns

udns Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/dnsget
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/6d19c72e3c185ef1a525bdbee6d974c81d923d
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/f0f89b89cc881f956bb7c7efd47ba753606582
/usr/lib64/libudns.so.0
/usr/share/doc/udns
/usr/share/doc/udns/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/doc/udns/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/udns/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/udns/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/dnsget.1.gz

References

udns website

Summary

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