How To Install dieharder on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install dieharder on Debian 11. dieharder is Random-number generator test front-end

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dieharder on Debian 11.

What is dieharder

dieharder is:

dieharder is a fairly involved random number/uniform deviate generator tester. It can either test any of its many prebuilt and linked generators (basically all of those in the GNU Scientific Library plus any others I’ve been able to find) or a potentially random dataset in a file. With file input, it can test either N-bit bitstrings (with N user specifiable) or (double precision) floating point numbers in the range [0.0,1.0) (uniform deviates). It is thus suitable for use in testing both software RNG’s and hardware RNG’s.

This package provides the command-line frontend.

There are three methods to install dieharder on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install dieharder Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dieharder

Install dieharder Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dieharder

Install dieharder 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 dieharder using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dieharder

How To Uninstall dieharder on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove dieharder

Uninstall dieharder And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dieharder and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dieharder

Remove dieharder Configurations and Data

To remove dieharder configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dieharder

Remove dieharder configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dieharder

Dependencies

dieharder have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dieharder package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.