4 Installation of the PowerDNS Authoritative server on UNIX systems can be
7 - Binary packages provided by your distribution
8 - Binary packages provided by PowerDNS on
9 `repo.powerdns.com <https://repo.powerdns.com>`__
17 PowerDNS Authoritative Server is available through the
18 `apt <https://packages.debian.org/pdns-server>`__ system.
22 $ sudo apt-get install pdns-server
24 Debian splits the backends into `several different
25 packages <https://packages.debian.org/pdns-backend>`__, install the
26 required backend as follows:
30 $ sudo apt-get install pdns-backend-$backend
35 On RedHat based systems there are 3 options to install PowerDNS, from
36 `EPEL <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`__, the `repository from
37 Kees Monshouwer <https://www.monshouwer.eu/download/3rd_party/pdns/>`__
38 or from `the PowerDNS repositories <https://repo.powerdns.com>`__:
40 Add either to your list of repositories and install PowerDNS by issuing:
44 $ sudo yum install pdns
46 The different backends can be installed using
50 $ sudo yum install pdns-backend-$backend
52 Note that for some of those package sources, the bind backend is shipped as part of the base ``pdns`` package, and there is no separate ``pdns-backend-bind`` package.
57 PowerDNS Authoritative Server is available through the
58 `ports <http://www.freshports.org/dns/powerdns/>`__ system:
64 $ sudo pkg install dns/powerdns
66 To have your system build the port:
70 cd /usr/ports/dns/powerdns/ && make install clean
75 PowerDNS Authoritative Server is available through Homebrew:
84 Once installed, :doc:`guides/basic-database` using MySQL or start :doc:`migrating <migration>` your data.