How To Install gfio on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfio
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 gfio
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gfio
How To Uninstall gfio on Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gfio
Remove gfio Configurations and Data
To remove gfio
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfio
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.