How To Install balboa on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install balboa on Ubuntu 22.04. balboa is Passive DNS database with GraphQL interface, frontend

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install balboa on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is balboa

balboa is:

balboa is the BAsic Little Book Of Answers. It consumes and indexes observations from passive DNS collection, providing a GraphQL interface to access the aggregated contents of the observations database.

This package contains the frontend, which handles user query interaction and input parsing. It requires a backend to store the consumed observations.

There are three methods to install balboa on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install balboa Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install balboa using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install balboa

Install balboa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install balboa using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install balboa

Install balboa 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 balboa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install balboa

How To Uninstall balboa on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove balboa

Uninstall balboa And Its Dependencies

To uninstall balboa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove balboa

Remove balboa Configurations and Data

To remove balboa configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge balboa

Remove balboa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove balboa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge balboa

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install balboa package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.