How To Install gfio on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfio on Kali Linux.

What is gfio

gfio 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 GTK+ based gui frontend for fio. The package fio contains the command line version of fio which acts as a backend to the GUI frontend. The frontend can talk to a locally or remotely running fio server.

There are three methods to install gfio on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gfio Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gfio using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gfio

Install gfio Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gfio using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gfio

Install gfio Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gfio using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gfio

How To Uninstall gfio on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gfio

Uninstall gfio And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gfio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gfio

Remove gfio Configurations and Data

To remove gfio configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gfio

Remove gfio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gfio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gfio

Dependencies

gfio have the following dependencies:

• libaio1
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libgfapi0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libibverbs1
• libnuma1
• libpmem1
• libpmemblk1
• librados2
• librbd1
• librdmacm1
• zlib1g

References

• gfio website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfio package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.