How To Install siege on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install siege
on CentOS 7.
What is siege
Siege is an HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure the performance of their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It allows the user hit a web server with a configurable number of concurrent simulated users. Those users place the web-server “under siege.”
We can use yum
or dnf
to install siege
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install siege.
Install siege on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install siege
using yum
by running the following command:
Install siege 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.
After updating yum database, We can install siege
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall siege on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the siege
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install siege
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.