How To Install bird2-doc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install bird2-doc on CentOS 7. bird2-doc is Documentation for BIRD Internet Routing Daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bird2-doc on CentOS 7.

What is bird2-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 bird2-doc on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bird2-doc.

Install bird2-doc on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install bird2-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bird2-doc

Install bird2-doc on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install bird2-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bird2-doc

How To Uninstall bird2-doc on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the bird2-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bird2-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bird2-doc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.