How To Install python3-exabgp on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-exabgp
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-exabgp
python3-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.
This package provides the Python 3 module of exabgp.
There are three methods to install python3-exabgp
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-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 python3-exabgp
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-exabgp
Install python3-exabgp Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-exabgp
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-exabgp
Install python3-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-exabgp
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-exabgp
How To Uninstall python3-exabgp on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-exabgp
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-exabgp
Uninstall python3-exabgp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-exabgp
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-exabgp
Remove python3-exabgp Configurations and Data
To remove python3-exabgp
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-exabgp
Remove python3-exabgp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-exabgp
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-exabgp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-exabgp
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.