How To Install bird-doc on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install bird-doc on Rocky Linux 8. bird-doc is Documentation for BIRD Internet Routing Daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bird-doc on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `bird-doc`

Documentation for users and programmers of the BIRD Internet Routing Daemon. 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-doc on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bird-doc.

Install bird-doc on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bird-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bird-doc

Install bird-doc on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bird-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bird-doc

How To Uninstall bird-doc on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the bird-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bird-doc

bird-doc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/bird-doc
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/README
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird-1.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird-2.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird-3.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird-4.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird-5.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird-6.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird-7.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird.conf.example2
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/bird.pdf
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog-1.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog-2.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog-3.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog-4.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog-5.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog-6.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog-7.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog-8.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog.html
/usr/share/doc/bird-doc/prog.pdf

References

bird-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bird-doc on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.