How To Install fio-examples on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fio-examples on Debian 12.
What is fio-examples
fio-examples 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 example job files.
There are three methods to install fio-examples 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 fio-examples 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-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fio-examples
Install fio-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fio-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fio-examples
Install fio-examples 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-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fio-examples
How To Uninstall fio-examples on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fio-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fio-examples
Uninstall fio-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fio-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fio-examples
Remove fio-examples Configurations and Data
To remove fio-examples configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fio-examples
Remove fio-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fio-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fio-examples
Dependencies
fio-examples have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fio-examples package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
