Complete Guide: Installing dhis-dns-engine on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "dhis-dns-engine" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install dhis-dns-engine on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "dhis-dns-engine" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall dhis-dns-engine on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the dhis-dns-engine package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: dhis-dns-engine
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 64
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers
Original-Maintainer: Guus Sliepen
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.3-1
Depends: bind9 | bind, dhis-server, libc6 (>= 2.4)
Filename: pool/universe/d/dhis-dns-engine/dhis-dns-engine_5.3-1_amd64.deb
Size: 8508
MD5sum: 28077d56f8a64bb44eabd5aa4d6a914d
SHA1: 508dd5e5ec4a657fc02da66d663dea74f27227d6
SHA256: edaa23a5ce83fc8154581efeaeb59f39ddece10ae7bf922a40a37c90eaa91226
Description-en: Dynamic Host Information System - DNS engine
This package contains a dynamic DNS service module to be used
with dhisd release 5 or above.
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While the DHIS server dhisd retrieves dynamic IP addresses
from clients, this module allows the server to update a
dynamic DNS zone based on those retrieved IP addresses.
Description-md5: d0077a66d81c342ff999f3c31f57120f
Homepage: http://www.dhis.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu