There are backported packages for the BIRD Internet Routing Daemon available. Packages are maintained by Ondrej Sury , currently i386 and amd64 ports are available for Debian and Ubuntu. If you want use this Debian package repository for BIRD, please execute following commands as root: # wget -O - http://bird.network.cz/debian/apt.key | apt-key add - # apt-get install lsb-release # echo "deb http://bird.network.cz/debian/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bird.list # apt-get update # apt-get install bird