Intro

If you are simply using vpp, it can be convenient to simply install the packages. The instructions below will pull the latest freshest package build from the master branch (updated on every merge).

Package Descriptions

vpp - Description: Vector Packet Processing--executables. This package provides VPP executables: vpp, vpp_api_test, vpp_json_test
- vpp - the vector packet engine
- vpp_api_test - vector packet engine API test tool
- vpp_json_test - vector packet engine JSON test tool
vpp-lib - Description: Vector Packet Processing--runtime libraries. This package contains the VPP shared libraries, including:
- vppinfra - foundation library supporting vectors, hashes, bitmaps, pools, and string formatting.
- svm - vm library
- vlib - vector processing library
- vlib-api - binary API library
- vnet - network stack library
vpp-plugins - Description: Vector Packet Processing--plugin modules

$ sudo vppctl show plugins        
Plugin path is: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vpp_plugins:/usr/lib/vpp_plugins

    Plugin                                   Version                          Description
 1. ioam_plugin.so                           19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Inbound OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance)
 2. memif_plugin.so                          19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Packet Memory Interface (experimental)
 3. perfmon_plugin.so                        19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Performance monitor
 4. crypto_ipsecmb_plugin.so                 19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Intel IPSEC multi-buffer
 5. nsh_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Network Service Header (NSH)
 6. avf_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Intel Adaptive Virtual Function (AVF) Device driver
 7. pppoe_plugin.so                          19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)
 8. abf_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          ACL based Forwarding
 9. srv6am_plugin.so                         19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Masquerading SRv6 proxy
10. ila_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Identifier-locator addressing for IPv6
11. l2e_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          L2 Emulation
12. tlsopenssl_plugin.so                     19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          openssl based TLS Engine
13. gtpu_plugin.so                           19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          GPRS Tunnelling Protocol, User Data (GTPv1-U)
14. map_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Mapping of address and port (MAP)
15. stn_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          VPP Steals the NIC (STN) for Container integration
16. http_static_plugin.so                    19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          http static server
17. acl_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Access Control Lists (ACL)
18. crypto_openssl_plugin.so                 19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          OpenSSL Crypto Engine
19. tlsmbedtls_plugin.so                     19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          mbedtls based TLS Engine
20. ikev2_plugin.so                          19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol
21. ct6_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          IPv6 connection tracker
22. cdp_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
23. lacp_plugin.so                           19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
24. flowprobe_plugin.so                      19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Flow per Packet
25. svs_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Source VRF Select
26. nsim_plugin.so                           19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Network delay simulator
27. mactime_plugin.so                        19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Time-based MAC source-address filter
28. lb_plugin.so                             19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Load Balancer (LB)
29. quic_plugin.so                           19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Quic transport protocol
30. crypto_ia32_plugin.so                    19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Intel AESNI Software Crypto Backend
31. srv6as_plugin.so                         19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Static SRv6 proxy
32. srv6ad_plugin.so                         19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Dynamic SRv6 proxy
33. rdma_plugin.so                           19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          RDMA (ibverb) Device driver
34. vmxnet3_plugin.so                        19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          VMWare Vmxnet3 Device driver
35. gbp_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Group Based Policy (GBP)
36. igmp_plugin.so                           19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) messaging
37. nat_plugin.so                            19.08-rc0~85-g59e0c8f5d          Network Address Translation (NAT)

vpp-dbg - Description: Vector Packet Processing--debug symbols
vpp-dev - Description: Vector Packet Processing--development support. This package contains development support files for the VPP libraries
vpp-api-java - Description: JAVA binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-api-python - Description: Python binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-api-lua - Description: Lua binding for the VPP Binary API.

Ubuntu/Debian/Centos

Packages are published for both the amd64 (Intel) and aarch64 (ARM) architectures. The packages are stored in the same repository so no special action is required to select your architecture.

Add fd.io repo

VPP release packages are available at: https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release

Note to VPP Committers: Pre-release packages are staged for final verification at: https://packagecloud.io/fdio/staging

If you follow that link you should see a screen presenting buttons to click to get instructions for installing Debian/Rpm packages. Click on the appropriate link for instructions, and those should work for Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, or Centos7. What to expect when following the link to https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release is in the image below:

If you wish to install the merge-by-merge packages for the vpp master branch or the vpp stable/YYMM branches, the instructions are the same but use instead:

https://packagecloud.io/fdio/master - for the master branch
https://packagecloud.io/fdio/1904 - for the stable/1904 branch.
https://packagecloud.io/fdio/1901 - for the stable/1901 branch.

Install Packages

Debs

Once you have installed the repo:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vpp

Optional Debs

sudo apt-get install vpp-plugins vpp-dbg vpp-dev vpp-api-java vpp-api-python vpp-api-lua

Install all VPP packages

sudo apt-get install vpp*

Note: vpp-plugins contains the dpdk-plugin needed to use dpdk drivers for hardware interfaces.

Uninstalling Debs

sudo apt-get remove --purge vpp*
sudo apt autoremove

RPMs

Note: Circa 19.04-rc0 some dependencies were introduced for Centos7 packages are required to install VPP:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: vpp-plugins-19.04-rc1~b4.x86_64 (fdio_1904)
           Requires: libmbedtls.so.10()(64bit)
Error: Package: vpp-devel-19.04-rc1~b4.x86_64 (fdio_1904)
           Requires: /usr/bin/python3
Error: Package: vpp-19.04-rc1~b4.x86_64 (fdio_1904)
           Requires: /usr/bin/python3
Error: Package: vpp-plugins-19.04-rc1~b4.x86_64 (fdio_1904)
           Requires: libmbedx509.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: vpp-plugins-19.04-rc1~b4.x86_64 (fdio_1904)
           Requires: libmbedcrypto.so.2()(64bit)

Installing the following packages on Centos7 resolves these dependency issues:

sudo yum install epel-release mbedtls python36

Once you have installed the repo:

sudo yum install vpp

Optional RPMs

sudo yum install vpp-plugins vpp-devel vpp-api-python vpp-api-lua vpp-api-java

Install all vpp packages

sudo yum install vpp*

Note: vpp-plugins contains the dpdk-plugin needed to use dpdk drivers for hardware interfaces.

Start VPP

sudo systemctl restart vpp

Uninstalling VPP RPMs

sudo yum autoremove vpp*

openSUSE

Blog-post: https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/vector-packet-processing-vpp-opensuse/

Install from official repositories

openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release)

sudo zypper install vpp vpp-plugins

openSUSE Leap 42.3

sudo zypper addrepo --name network https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/network.repo
sudo zypper install vpp vpp-plugins

Install from FD.io repositories

If the version of VPP you require has not yet made it in to the official repository you can elect to use the FD.io release repository.

openSUSE Leap 42.3

This repository is available since VPP 18.04.

sudo zypper addrepo --type rpm-md --name "FD.io release" https://nexus.fd.io/content/repositories/fd.io.osleap423/ fdio-leap423
sudo zypper install vpp vpp-plugins

openSUSE Leap 15

This repository is available since VPP 18.10.

If you are interested in cutting-edge master branch then:

sudo curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/fdio/master/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
sudo zypper install vpp vpp-plugins

If instead you are looking for a stable release, the latest and greatest available is 18.10

sudo curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/fdio/1810/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
sudo zypper install vpp vpp-plugins

Uninstall

openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release)

sudo zypper remove -u vpp vpp-plugins

openSUSE Leap 42.3

sudo zypper remove -u vpp vpp-plugins

Optionally also remove the repository:

sudo zypper removerepo network

or

sudo zypper removerepo fdio-leap423

Arch Linux

Available in the Arch User Repository (AUR): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vpp/

(Currently the bin packages do not work).

Getting jvpp jar

NOTE: As of VPP 19.04, JVPP is now an independent FD.io project.

Directly downloading jvpp.jar

vpp provides java bindings which can be downloaded

Getting jvpp via maven

Add the following to the repositories section in your ~/.m2/settings.xml to pick up the fd.io maven repo:

<repository>
  <id>fd.io-release</id>
  <name>fd.io-release</name>
  <url>https://nexus.fd.io/content/repositories/fd.io.release/</url>
  <releases>
    <enabled>false</enabled>
  </releases>
  <snapshots>
    <enabled>true</enabled>
  </snapshots>
</repository>

More information on setting up maven repositories in settings.xml.

Then you can get jvpp by putting in the dependencies section of your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.fd.vpp</groupId>
  <artifactId>jvpp-core</artifactId>
  <version>18.04</version>
</dependency>

More information on maven dependency managment

Old Nexus Apt/Yum repo instructions

If you wish to access the old Nexus Apt/Yum repo instructions there are available here.

VPP/Installing VPP binaries from packages

Contents

Intro

Package Descriptions

Ubuntu/Debian/Centos

Add fd.io repo

Install Packages

Debs

RPMs

Uninstalling VPP RPMs

openSUSE

Install from official repositories

openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release)

openSUSE Leap 42.3

Install from FD.io repositories

openSUSE Leap 42.3

openSUSE Leap 15

Uninstall

openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release)

openSUSE Leap 42.3

Arch Linux

Getting jvpp jar

Directly downloading jvpp.jar

Getting jvpp via maven

Old Nexus Apt/Yum repo instructions

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