How To Install toxiproxy on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install toxiproxy on Debian 9.
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 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
