[ovs-discuss] Please clarify on how to install openvswitch-2.1.0 on Ubuntu 12.04

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Apr 3 20:49:29 UTC 2014


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 01:38:35AM -0500, Andrew Niteesh wrote:
> I followed these steps,
> 
> wget http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-2.1.0.tar.gz
> tar xvfz openvswitch-2.1.0.tar.gz
> cd openvswitch-2.1.0
> apt-get update
> apt-get -y install pkg-config libssl-dev libc-dev
> ./boot.sh
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
> sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/openvswitch
> sudo ovsdb-tool create /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db
> vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
> 
> sudo ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \
> --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options \
> --private-key=db:SSL,private_key \
> --certificate=db:SSL,certificate \
> --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert \
> --pidfile --detach \
> 
> sudo ovs-vsctl --no-wait init
> sudo ovs-vswitchd --pidfile --detach
> 
> Is this correct?

At a glance, this looks like what INSTALL says, so it should be
correct.  But on Ubuntu I'd be inclined to build the .deb packages and
install those.



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