VPP/Installing VPP binaries from packages

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
  • acl
  • dpdk
  • flowprobe
  • gtpu
  • ixge
  • kubeproxy
  • l2e
  • lb
  • memif
  • nat
  • pppoe
  • sixrd
  • stn
• 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

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/1807 - for the stable/1807 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

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

• Uninstalling Debs

sudo apt-get remove --purge vpp*

RPMs

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

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

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

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.