How To Install exabgp on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install exabgp on Debian 11.
What is exabgp
exabgp is:
ExaBGP allows engineers to control their network from commodity servers. Think of it as Software Defined Networking using BGP by transforming BGP messages into friendly plain text or JSON.
Current documented use cases include DDOS mitigation, network visualisation, service high availability, anycast.
It features ASN4 (RFC 4893), IPv6 (RFC 4760), MPLS (RFC 4659), VPLS (RFC 4762), Flow (RFC 5575), Graceful Restart (RFC 4724), Enhanced Route Refresh (RFC 7313), AIGP (RFC 7311) and more.
There are three methods to install exabgp on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install exabgp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install exabgp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install exabgp
Install exabgp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install exabgp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install exabgp
Install exabgp 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install exabgp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install exabgp
How To Uninstall exabgp on Debian 11
To uninstall only the exabgp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove exabgp
Uninstall exabgp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall exabgp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove exabgp
Remove exabgp Configurations and Data
To remove exabgp configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge exabgp
Remove exabgp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove exabgp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge exabgp
Dependencies
exabgp have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exabgp package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
