How To Install polygraph on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install polygraph on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is polygraph
polygraph is:
Web Polygraph is a performance testing tool for caching proxies, origin server accelerators, L4/7 switches, content filters, and other Web intermediaries. Polygraph’s features include:
- high-performance HTTP clients and servers
- realistic HTTP, FTP, and SSL traffic generation
- HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy support, with chaining
- HTTP Basic, NTLM, and Negotiate proxy authentication
- LDAP-friendly generation of user credentials
- flexible content simulation
- ready-to-use standard workloads for benchmarking
- powerful domain-specific configuration language
- portable open-source implementation
Documentation, test results, and support available at www.web-polygraph.org.
There are three methods to install polygraph on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install polygraph Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install polygraph using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install polygraph
Install polygraph Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install polygraph using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install polygraph
Install polygraph 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 polygraph using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install polygraph
How To Uninstall polygraph on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the polygraph package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove polygraph
Uninstall polygraph And Its Dependencies
To uninstall polygraph and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove polygraph
Remove polygraph Configurations and Data
To remove polygraph configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge polygraph
Remove polygraph configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove polygraph configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polygraph
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install polygraph package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
