How To Install fio on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install fio on Debian 11. fio is flexible I/O tester

Introduction

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

What is fio

fio is:

fio is a tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a particular type of I/O action as specified by the user. fio takes a number of global parameters, each inherited by the thread unless otherwise parameters given to them overriding that setting is given. The typical use of fio is to write a job file matching the I/O load one wants to simulate.

This package contains the command line version of fio and all additional command line tools. The package gfio contains the GTK+ based gui frontend for fio.

There are three methods to install fio 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 fio Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fio

Install fio Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fio

Install fio 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 fio using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fio

How To Uninstall fio on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove fio

Uninstall fio And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fio

Remove fio Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fio

Remove fio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fio

Dependencies

fio have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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