How To Install siege on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install siege on Rocky Linux 8.
What is siege
Siege is an HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure the performance of their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It allows the user hit a web server with a configurable number of concurrent simulated users. Those users place the web-server “under siege.”
We can use yum or dnf to install siege on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install siege.
Install siege on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install siege using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install siege
Install siege on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install siege using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install siege
How To Uninstall siege on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the siege package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove siege
siege Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/siege
/etc/siege/siegerc
/etc/siege/urls.txt
/usr/bin/bombardment
/usr/bin/siege
/usr/bin/siege.config
/usr/bin/siege2csv.pl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/73b058ddec741399863428b2740c8402c91868
/usr/share/doc/siege
/usr/share/doc/siege/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/siege/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/siege/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/bombardment.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/siege.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/siege.config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/siege2csv.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install siege on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
