How To Install tsung on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tsung on Kali Linux. tsung is distributed multi-protocol load testing tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tsung on Kali Linux.

What is tsung

tsung is:

Tsung is a distributed load testing tool. It can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers.

The purpose of Tsung is to simulate users in order to test the scalability and performance of IP based client/server applications. You can use it to do load and stress testing of your servers. Many protocols have been implemented and tested, and it can be easily extended. WebDAV, LDAP and MySQL support have been added recently (experimental).

For HTTP, it support 1.0 and 1.1 version, has a proxy mode to record sessions, support GET and POST method, Cookies and Basic WWW-authentication. It also has support for SSL.

It can be distributed on several client machines and is able to simulate hundreds of thousands of virtual users concurrently (or even millions if you have enough hardware …).

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

Install tsung Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tsung

Install tsung Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tsung

Install tsung Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install tsung

How To Uninstall tsung on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tsung

Uninstall tsung And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tsung and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tsung

Remove tsung Configurations and Data

To remove tsung configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tsung

Remove tsung configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tsung

Dependencies

tsung have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tsung package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.