How To Install siege on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install siege on CentOS 7. siege is HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility

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.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install siege using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install siege

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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install siege using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install siege

How To Uninstall siege on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the siege package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove siege

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install siege on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.