How To Install toxiproxy on Debian 10

Learn how to install toxiproxy on Debian 10 with this tutorial. toxiproxy is proxy to simulate network and system conditions

Introduction

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

What is toxiproxy

toxiproxy is:

Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions. It’s made specifically to work in testing, CI and development environments, supporting deterministic tampering with connections, but with support for randomized chaos and customization. Toxiproxy is the tool you need to prove with tests that your application doesn’t have single points of failure

This package contains the server.

There are three methods to install toxiproxy 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 toxiproxy Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install toxiproxy

Install toxiproxy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install toxiproxy

Install toxiproxy 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 toxiproxy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install toxiproxy

How To Uninstall toxiproxy on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove toxiproxy

Uninstall toxiproxy And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove toxiproxy

Remove toxiproxy Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge toxiproxy

Remove toxiproxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge toxiproxy

Dependencies

toxiproxy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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