How To Install sluice on Debian 10

Learn how to install sluice on Debian 10 with this tutorial. sluice is rate limiting data piping tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sluice on Debian 10.

What is sluice

sluice is:

Sluice reads from standard input and write to standard output at a specified data rate. This can be useful for benchmarking and exercising I/O streaming at desired throughput rates.

There are three methods to install sluice on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install sluice Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install sluice using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sluice

Install sluice Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sluice using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sluice

Install sluice 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install sluice using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sluice

How To Uninstall sluice on Debian 10

To uninstall only the sluice package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sluice

Uninstall sluice And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sluice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sluice

Remove sluice Configurations and Data

To remove sluice configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sluice

Remove sluice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove sluice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sluice

Dependencies

sluice have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sluice package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.