How To Install iozone3 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iozone3 on Kali Linux.

What is iozone3

iozone3 is:

Iozone is useful for determining a broad benchmark of filesystem performance. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations: Read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read/write, pread/pwrite variants.

There are three methods to install iozone3 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 iozone3 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install iozone3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install iozone3

Install iozone3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install iozone3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install iozone3

Install iozone3 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 iozone3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iozone3

How To Uninstall iozone3 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the iozone3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove iozone3

Uninstall iozone3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall iozone3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iozone3

Remove iozone3 Configurations and Data

To remove iozone3 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge iozone3

Remove iozone3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove iozone3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iozone3

Dependencies

iozone3 have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• iozone3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iozone3 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.