Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install avahi-dnsconfd on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is avahi-dnsconfd
avahi-dnsconfd is:
Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
This tool listens on the network for announced DNS servers and passes
them to resolvconf so it can use them. This is very useful on autoconfigured
IPv6 networks.
Package: avahi-dnsconfd
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.7-4ubuntu7
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Source: avahi
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 100
Depends: libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.15), libdaemon0 (>= 0.10), avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.31-3~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Recommends: resolvconf
Filename: pool/universe/a/avahi/avahi-dnsconfd_0.7-4ubuntu7_amd64.deb
Size: 14076
MD5sum: f7fe6b2e466682d02dfa560138b62055
SHA1: e4132e7a9b185c89887dc89fa53baf615e2ba680
SHA256: 30459e7c5641a061670f105cb12a402c8ecc26bcf65ee7032fb45c78492d3d01
Homepage: http://avahi.org/
Description-en: Avahi DNS configuration tool
Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
This tool listens on the network for announced DNS servers and passes
them to resolvconf so it can use them. This is very useful on autoconfigured
IPv6 networks.
There are three methods to install avahi-dnsconfd 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 avahi-dnsconfd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install avahi-dnsconfd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install avahi-dnsconfd
Install avahi-dnsconfd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install avahi-dnsconfd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install avahi-dnsconfd
Install avahi-dnsconfd 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 avahi-dnsconfd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install avahi-dnsconfd
How To Uninstall avahi-dnsconfd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the avahi-dnsconfd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove avahi-dnsconfd
Uninstall avahi-dnsconfd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall avahi-dnsconfd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove avahi-dnsconfd
Remove avahi-dnsconfd Configurations and Data
To remove avahi-dnsconfd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge avahi-dnsconfd
Remove avahi-dnsconfd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove avahi-dnsconfd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge avahi-dnsconfd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install avahi-dnsconfd package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
