Installing Latest (ddclient)

Installing latest version of ddclient manually

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Ubuntu 20.04 - Update 3.8.x to 3.9.1

1. Install ddclient from apt + dependencies

sudo apt install libio-socket-ssl-perl \
    libio-socket-inet6-perl \
    libjson-pp-perl \
    libdata-validate-ip-perl \
    ddclient

Install with the below options

• Dynamic DNS service provider: select other

• Dynamic DNS server: leave blank

• Dynamic DNS update protocol: select dyndns2

• Username for dynamic DNS service: leave blank

• Password for dynamic DNS service: leave blank

• Re-enter password to verify: leave blank

• Network interface used for dynamic DNS service: leave blank

• DynDNS fully qualified domain names: leave blank

Now let’s rerun the configuration and answer the additional questions that were not asked on the first run! You can just provide the same answers, but the additional questions are what we need to pay attention to.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ddclient

• Run ddclient on PPP connect?: select No (the default is “Yes”).

• Run ddclient as a daemon: select Yes (the default is “No”).

• Interval between ddclient runs: leave as 300 (if you want a 5 minute interval).

2. Pull 3.9.1 release from SourceForge, && unpack tar

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddclient/files/ddclient/ddclient-3.9.1/ddclient-3.9.1.tar.gz \
    && tar -xvf ddclient-* \
    && cd ddclient-*/ && ls -alh

3. Copy new ddclient to /usr/sbin, overwriting old version

sudo cp -f ddclient /usr/sbin/ddclient

4. Update .conf file location

/etc/ddclient.conf moved to /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf with version 3.9.0

sudo mkdir /etc/ddclient \
    && mv /etc/ddclient.conf /etc/ddclient/

Reference

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