Manual Install

Flock Networks Routing Suite can be manually installed on any Linux system. Besides the Linux Kernel API (Sockets, Netlink, etc), the binaries need only the GNU C library and the GCC runtime library (libgcc_s).

Extract the contents of the Debian package

You will need the ar archive utility from binutils.

For example on Fedora;

# yum install binutils

Then extract the contents of the debian package

$ ar x flockd_<version>_amd64.deb
$ ls
control.tar.gz  data.tar.xz  debian-binary  flockd_<version>_amd64.deb
$ tar -xf data.tar.xz
$ ls
control.tar.gz  debian-binary  flockd_<version>_amd64.deb  usr data.tar.xz etc lib

Install Files

Copy the flockd daemon config files to /etc/flockd

# mkdir /etc/flockd
# cp etc/flockd/* /etc/flockd

Copy the flockd daemon to /usr/sbin

# cp usr/sbin/flockd /usr/sbin

Copy the flockc client to /usr/bin

# cp usr/bin/flockc /usr/bin

Start the daemon

# RUST_LOG=info /usr/sbin/flockd &

Check the daemon is running

$ flockc sys overview
{"host_info":{"hostname":"flocknet", ...},"system_info":{"name":"flockd", ...,"version":"<version>", ...},"pid":2423,"log_level":"info","uptime":"days: 0, hours: 0, mins: 0, secs: 19","enabled_protocols":["OSPFv2","Static"],"software_errors":0, ...,"maintenance_mode":false}
$