How To Install bird on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bird on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bird.
Install bird 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 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bird
Install bird 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 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bird
How To Uninstall bird on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the bird package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bird
bird Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/bird.conf
/run/bird
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/aa685a0016613a47a5b01eb1bb8fab3b07ff2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/7e5837a2d8d370b41ad07853f3bf3d3bf01c79
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/eb496d7077fb75011c82694fc938cc8f327714
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.