How To Install stress-ng on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress-ng on CentOS 8.
What is stress-ng
Stress test a computer system in various ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces.
We can use yum or dnf to install stress-ng on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stress-ng.
Install stress-ng 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 stress-ng using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stress-ng
Install stress-ng 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 stress-ng using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stress-ng
How To Uninstall stress-ng on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the stress-ng package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stress-ng
stress-ng Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/stress-ng
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/8e21d7e1555dd33b98bafe0a1982b64adb0cec
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/stress-ng
/usr/share/doc/stress-ng
/usr/share/doc/stress-ng/README
/usr/share/licenses/stress-ng
/usr/share/licenses/stress-ng/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/stress-ng.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress-ng on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.