How to Install and Uninstall firedns Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "firedns" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install firedns on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                firedns
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "firedns" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall firedns on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: firedns
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 487
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.9.12+dfsg-5
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libfirestring0.9
Filename: pool/universe/f/firedns/firedns_0.9.12+dfsg-5_amd64.deb
Size: 27788
MD5sum: 999ecbcc9b8f9e889e43776a1bed82e3
SHA1: 40aac10276687d2a21edc631bab67124babbeb51
SHA256: 0eb6f63408b147d60ceb669047cb8d5ed9dfa75f5bb716923a5517cb1b9eea5a
Description-en: Runtime binaries for firedns, an asynch. dns resolver library
FireDNS is a DNS resolver library. Features include asynchronous resolution,
and multi-server queries (making lookups much faster than with the stock
libc/bind functions).
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The binaries included in this package use FireDNS to do various DNS queries;
these are good for programming examples, as well as simplistic queries.
Description-md5: d116155aec4f3ba85edf15a094929db6
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu