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Packages
==========
This section identifies the different VPP packages and describes their contents.
.. toctree::
vpp
---
Vector Packet Processing executables. This is the primary package that must be
installed to use VPP. This package contains:
* 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
-------
Vector Packet Processing runtime libraries. The *'vpp'* package depends on this
package, so it will always be installed. 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
-----------
Vector Packet Processing plugin modules.
* acl
* dpdk
* flowprobe
* gtpu
* ixge
* kubeproxy
* l2e
* lb
* memif
* nat
* pppoe
* sixrd
* stn
vpp-dbg
-------
Vector Packet Processing debug symbols.
vpp-dev
-------
Vector Packet Processing development support. This package contains
development support files for the VPP libraries.
vpp-api-python
--------------
Python binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-api-lua
-----------
Lua binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-selinux-policy
------------------
This package contains the VPP Custom SELinux Policy. It is only generated for
Fedora and CentOS distros. For those distros, the *'vpp'* package depends on
this package, so it will always be installed. It will not enable SELinux on
the system. It will install a Custom VPP SELinux policy that will be used if
SELinux is enabled at any time.