How To Install httperf on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install httperf
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is httperf
httperf is:
httperf is a tool to measure web server performance. It speaks the HTTP protocol both in its HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 flavors and offers a variety of workload generators. While running, it keeps track of a number of performance metrics that are summarized in the form of statistics that are printed at the end of a test run.
This package provide httperf and idleconn commands.
There are three methods to install httperf
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 httperf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install httperf
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install httperf
Install httperf Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install httperf
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install httperf
Install httperf 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 httperf
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install httperf
How To Uninstall httperf on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the httperf
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove httperf
Uninstall httperf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall httperf
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove httperf
Remove httperf Configurations and Data
To remove httperf
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge httperf
Remove httperf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove httperf
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge httperf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install httperf
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.