How To Install bird6 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bird6 on CentOS 7.
What is bird6
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. This package contains IPv6 version.
We can use yum or dnf to install bird6 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bird6.
Install bird6 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bird6 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bird6
Install bird6 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 bird6 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bird6
How To Uninstall bird6 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bird6 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bird6
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bird6 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.