How To Install siege on Fedora 34

siege is HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install siege on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install siege.

Install siege on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove siege

siege Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/f98688fbde1a204dc32cd3b211fa574670015a
/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
/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/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/808fb319a127cc3430954ca054e5ee6d9ccf9f
/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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install siege on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.