How To Install netperfmeter-plotting on Debian 12

Learn how to install netperfmeter-plotting on Debian 12 with this tutorial. netperfmeter-plotting is Network Performance Meter (plotting program)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install netperfmeter-plotting on Debian 12.

What is netperfmeter-plotting

netperfmeter-plotting is:

NetPerfMeter is a network performance meter for the UDP, TCP, MPTCP, SCTP and DCCP transport protocols over IPv4 and IPv6. It simultaneously transmits bidirectional flows to an endpoint and measures the resulting flow bandwidths and QoS. The results are written as vector and scalar files. The vector files can e.g. be used to create plots of the results.

This package contains a plotting program for the results.

There are three methods to install netperfmeter-plotting on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install netperfmeter-plotting Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install netperfmeter-plotting

Install netperfmeter-plotting Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install netperfmeter-plotting

Install netperfmeter-plotting 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 netperfmeter-plotting using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install netperfmeter-plotting

How To Uninstall netperfmeter-plotting on Debian 12

To uninstall only the netperfmeter-plotting package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove netperfmeter-plotting

Uninstall netperfmeter-plotting And Its Dependencies

To uninstall netperfmeter-plotting and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove netperfmeter-plotting

Remove netperfmeter-plotting Configurations and Data

To remove netperfmeter-plotting configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge netperfmeter-plotting

Remove netperfmeter-plotting configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge netperfmeter-plotting

Dependencies

netperfmeter-plotting have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install netperfmeter-plotting package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.