How To Install gatling on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gatling
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gatling
gatling is:
Features: * Small (125k Linux-x86 binary with HTTP, FTP and SMB support) * Fast (measure for yourself, please) * Scalable * Uses platform-specific performance and scalability APIs * connection keep-alive * IPv6 support * transparent content negotiation * With optional directory index generation * Will only serve world readable files * Supports FTP and FTP upload as well * CGI support for HTTP, also SCGI and FastCGI (over IP sockets) * .htaccess support * Can detect some common mime types itself, like file(1) * Read-only SMB support
There are three methods to install gatling
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gatling Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gatling
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gatling
Install gatling Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gatling
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gatling
Install gatling 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gatling
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gatling
How To Uninstall gatling on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gatling
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gatling
Uninstall gatling And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gatling
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gatling
Remove gatling Configurations and Data
To remove gatling
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gatling
Remove gatling configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gatling
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gatling
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gatling
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.