August 2017
Beginner
450 pages
13h 21m
English
First download Floodlight controller. You may simply download a Floodlight virtual machine (VM) from http://www.projectfloodlight.org/download/.
Alternatively, you may download the source code archive from Floodlight and build it:
$ wget https://github.com/floodlight/floodlight/archive/v1.2.zip
Many open source Java projects such as OpenDaylight and ONOS are built using Apache Maven. You may install Maven in Ubuntu/Debian based systems using the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install maven
Floodlight requires Apache Ant in addition to Apache Maven for its build. You may install Ant using the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install ant
Maven requires Java for its execution. The preceding command will install Java as ...