How to Install and Uninstall exabgp Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 19,2024

1. Install "exabgp" package

This tutorial shows how to install exabgp on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                exabgp
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "exabgp" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall exabgp on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                exabgp
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the exabgp package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: exabgp
Architecture: all
Version: 4.2.8-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Vincent Bernat
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 164
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 1.5.34), dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2)
Depends: adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), python3-exabgp (= 4.2.8-1), python3-pkg-resources, ucf
Filename: pool/universe/e/exabgp/exabgp_4.2.8-1_all.deb
Size: 28792
MD5sum: a0ba7304544736989c24fa4e366103ca
SHA1: 930ecad4c36c92715feca0334e170e3b2c4be0c4
SHA256: d46c5dd3576b3e813449ebf2e987c1dee34269985953844823a3f4c7b98b5b14
SHA512: 82d94618c058f788f2501214a5ce0b83788d967bed98e01f24c07117b7bbc20d0497e219ad00e58fd4fe857a31c8dc937204def6ccffef599b83e304aefac317
Homepage: https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp
Description-en: BGP swiss army knife of networking
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.
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Current documented use cases include DDOS mitigation, network
visualisation, service high availability, anycast.
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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.
Description-md5: 29fcdd53aa064940ec1e2f06a3cd3dac