How To Install bird on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bird on Fedora 34.
What is bird
BIRD is a dynamic IP routing daemon supporting both, IPv4 and IPv6, Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4), Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng), Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3), Babel Routing Protocol (Babel), Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), IPv6 router advertisements, static routes, inter-table protocol, command-line interface allowing on-line control and inspection of the status of the daemon, soft reconfiguration as well as a powerful language for route filtering.
We can use yum or dnf to install bird on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bird.
Install bird on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bird using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bird
Install bird on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bird using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bird
How To Uninstall bird on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the bird package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bird
bird Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/bird.conf
/run/bird
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/5c3a8ca745b8d5e48b6543620ec43b3eb758f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/67a69c94964592564d9b92da716bafa86d6a16
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/e6ef29016873b9f848760e86be26319eb100d6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bird.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/bird.conf
/usr/sbin/bird
/usr/sbin/birdc
/usr/sbin/birdcl
/usr/share/doc/bird
/usr/share/doc/bird/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/bird/README
/var/lib/bird
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bird on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.