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+.. _packages:
+
+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-java
+------------
+
+JAVA binding for the VPP Binary API.
+
+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.