How To Install stress on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress on Fedora 34.
What is stress
stress is not a benchmark, but is rather a tool designed to put given subsytems under a specified load. Instances in which this is useful include those in which a system administrator wishes to perform tuning activities, a kernel or libc programmer wishes to evaluate denial of service possibilities, etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install stress on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stress.
Install stress 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 stress using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stress
Install stress 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 stress using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stress
How To Uninstall stress on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the stress package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stress
stress Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/stress
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/56548edba2fde72c885618eeb372791abc7fa0
/usr/share/doc/stress
/usr/share/doc/stress/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/stress/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/stress/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/stress/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/stress/README
/usr/share/doc/stress/TODO
/usr/share/doc/stress/stress.html
/usr/share/info/stress.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/stress.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.