How To Install dieharder on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dieharder on Debian 12.
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 12. 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 12
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 12, 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 12 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 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.