How To Install siege on CentOS 8

siege is HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install siege on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install siege.

Install siege on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install siege using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install siege

Install siege on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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 CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove siege

siege Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.