How To Install quagga-ospfd on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quagga-ospfd
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is quagga-ospfd
quagga-ospfd 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 OSPF routing daemon.
There are three methods to install quagga-ospfd
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 quagga-ospfd 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-ospfd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install quagga-ospfd
Install quagga-ospfd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install quagga-ospfd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install quagga-ospfd
Install quagga-ospfd 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-ospfd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install quagga-ospfd
How To Uninstall quagga-ospfd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the quagga-ospfd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove quagga-ospfd
Uninstall quagga-ospfd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall quagga-ospfd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove quagga-ospfd
Remove quagga-ospfd Configurations and Data
To remove quagga-ospfd
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge quagga-ospfd
Remove quagga-ospfd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove quagga-ospfd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quagga-ospfd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quagga-ospfd
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.