How To Install hyperfine on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hyperfine
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is hyperfine
hyperfine is:
Developed in Rust, hyperfine provides the following features:
- Statistical analysis across multiple runs.
- Support for arbitrary shell commands.
- Constant feedback about the benchmark progress and current estimates.
- Warmup runs can be executed before the actual benchmark.
- Cache-clearing commands can be set up before each timing run.
- Statistical outlier detection to detect interference from other programs and caching effects.
- Export results to various formats: CSV, JSON, Markdown, AsciiDoc.
- Parameterized benchmarks (e.g. vary the number of threads).
There are three methods to install hyperfine
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hyperfine Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hyperfine
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hyperfine
Install hyperfine Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hyperfine
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hyperfine
Install hyperfine Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hyperfine
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hyperfine
How To Uninstall hyperfine on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the hyperfine
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hyperfine
Uninstall hyperfine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hyperfine
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hyperfine
Remove hyperfine Configurations and Data
To remove hyperfine
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hyperfine
Remove hyperfine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hyperfine
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hyperfine
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hyperfine
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.