How To Install exabgp on Debian 12

Learn how to install exabgp on Debian 12 with this tutorial. exabgp is BGP swiss army knife of networking

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install exabgp on Debian 12.

What is exabgp

exabgp is:

ExaBGP allows engineers to control their network from commodity servers. Think of it as Software Defined Networking using BGP by transforming BGP messages into friendly plain text or JSON.

Current documented use cases include DDOS mitigation, network visualisation, service high availability, anycast.

It features ASN4 (RFC 4893), IPv6 (RFC 4760), MPLS (RFC 4659), VPLS (RFC 4762), Flow (RFC 5575), Graceful Restart (RFC 4724), Enhanced Route Refresh (RFC 7313), AIGP (RFC 7311) and more.

There are three methods to install exabgp on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install exabgp Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install exabgp using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install exabgp

Install exabgp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install exabgp using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install exabgp

Install exabgp Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install exabgp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install exabgp

How To Uninstall exabgp on Debian 12

To uninstall only the exabgp package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove exabgp

Uninstall exabgp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall exabgp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove exabgp

Remove exabgp Configurations and Data

To remove exabgp configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge exabgp

Remove exabgp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove exabgp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge exabgp

Dependencies

exabgp have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install exabgp package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.