How To Install quagga-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install quagga-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. quagga-doc is network routing daemons (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quagga-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is quagga-doc

quagga-doc is:

GNU Quagga is free software which manages TCP/IP based routing protocols. It supports BGP4, BGP4+, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, IS-IS, RIPv1, RIPv2, and RIPng as well as the IPv6 versions of these.

This package contains the extended documentation.

There are three methods to install quagga-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install quagga-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install quagga-doc

Install quagga-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install quagga-doc

Install quagga-doc 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 quagga-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install quagga-doc

How To Uninstall quagga-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove quagga-doc

Uninstall quagga-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall quagga-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove quagga-doc

Remove quagga-doc Configurations and Data

To remove quagga-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge quagga-doc

Remove quagga-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quagga-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quagga-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.