Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bird on CentOS 8.
What is bird
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.
We can use yum or dnf to install bird on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bird.
Install bird on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bird using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bird
Install bird on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bird using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bird
How To Uninstall bird on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bird package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bird
bird Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/bird.conf
/run/bird
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/aa685a0016613a47a5b01eb1bb8fab3b07ff2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/7e5837a2d8d370b41ad07853f3bf3d3bf01c79
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/eb496d7077fb75011c82694fc938cc8f327714
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bird.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/bird.conf
/usr/sbin/bird
/usr/sbin/birdc
/usr/sbin/birdcl
/usr/share/doc/bird
/usr/share/doc/bird/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/bird/README
/var/lib/bird
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bird on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
