How To Install phoronix-test-suite on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phoronix-test-suite on CentOS 7.
What is phoronix-test-suite
The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available for the Linux operating system. This software is designed to effectively carry out both qualitative and quantitative benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner. The Phoronix Test Suite consists of a lightweight processing core (pts-core) with each benchmark consisting of an XML-based profile with related resource scripts. The process from the benchmark installation, to the actual benchmarking, to the parsing of important hardware and software components is heavily automated and completely repeatable, asking users only for confirmation of actions.
We can use yum or dnf to install phoronix-test-suite on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install phoronix-test-suite.
Install phoronix-test-suite on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install phoronix-test-suite using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install phoronix-test-suite
Install phoronix-test-suite on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install phoronix-test-suite using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install phoronix-test-suite
How To Uninstall phoronix-test-suite on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the phoronix-test-suite package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove phoronix-test-suite
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phoronix-test-suite on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
