How To Install siege on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install siege on Kali Linux.

What is siege

siege is:

Siege is an regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, the GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.

Note: this package contains siege with HTTPS support turned on, thus it obsoletes siege-ssl package now.

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

Install siege Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install siege

Install siege Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install siege

Install siege Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install siege

How To Uninstall siege on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove siege

Uninstall siege And Its Dependencies

To uninstall siege and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove siege

Remove siege Configurations and Data

To remove siege configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge siege

Remove siege configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge siege

Dependencies

siege have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install siege package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.