From 30d8b27b4aa487928e291e117a4baff1bd2356ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Tristan B. Velloza Kildaire" Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 15:45:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added installation notes for Bird2 --- docs/routing/bird/bird.md | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/routing/bird/bird.md b/docs/routing/bird/bird.md index 7e8e406..cd3a160 100644 --- a/docs/routing/bird/bird.md +++ b/docs/routing/bird/bird.md @@ -14,4 +14,16 @@ of which there are two versions: You can use Bird 1.6 but you are on your own then in terms of configuration, the syntax differs slightly but we recommend (and for the rest of this document we will be) using Bird 2 as it comes with many bug fixes and improvements and most distributions (including Debian) -now have support for it. \ No newline at end of file +now have support for it. + +## Installation + +In order to install the BIRD daemon on your machine you should look for a package named `bird2` or something +similar (some repositories name it slightly differently - such as _just_ `bird`). On a Debian-based system you +can use: + +```bash +sudo apt install bird2 -y +``` + +You can confirm that the version of BIRD you installed is version 2 with the command `bird -v`. \ No newline at end of file