Here are some docs about how to build the various BGP tools out there.

BGPDUMP is a tool and set of libraries maintained by the RIPE NCC which reads MRT (MultiRouter Toolkit) files and outputs them in human readable format (ie ASCII).

First off, we clone the git repo locally. Go to the place where you normally do your development work (for example, /usr/local/src), and:

git clone https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/bgpdump.git

Next make sure we have the libraries and packages we need installed:

sudo apt install libz-dev libbz2-dev autoheader

and then go into the bgpdump folder and build the Makefile:

cd bgpdump
./bootstrap.sh

Once this is done we can then build bgpdump:

make

and then install it:

sudo make install

which will put bgpdump into /usr/local/bin.

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