How To Install mahimahi on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mahimahi on Debian 11.
What is mahimahi
mahimahi is:
Mahimahi is a suite of user-space tools for network emulation and analysis.
Each mahimahi tool spawns a lightweight container, generally connected to the outside via a synthetic network device that observes packets in transit or emulates a desired behavior.
The tools are composable so that a series of emulated network effects can be chained together, with mahimahi containers nested inside each other. Each tool takes an optional command to execute, so it is possible to create a series of nested containers with one command line.
There are three methods to install mahimahi on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mahimahi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mahimahi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mahimahi
Install mahimahi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mahimahi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mahimahi
Install mahimahi 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mahimahi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mahimahi
How To Uninstall mahimahi on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mahimahi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mahimahi
Uninstall mahimahi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mahimahi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mahimahi
Remove mahimahi Configurations and Data
To remove mahimahi configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mahimahi
Remove mahimahi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mahimahi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mahimahi
Dependencies
mahimahi have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libprotobuf23
- libssl1.1
- libstdc++6
- libxcb-present0
- libxcb1
- iptables
- dnsmasq-base
- apache2-bin
- gnuplot
- iproute2
- apache2-api-20120211
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mahimahi package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.