How To Install stress on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install stress in Fedora 36. stress is A tool to put given subsystems under a specified load

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stress on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stress.

Install stress on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install stress using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stress

Install stress on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove stress

stress Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/stress
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/571a77861ba431b7eedd5d5ed788abac2910ec
/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).