How To Install siege on Kali Linux
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.
After updating apt database, We can install siege
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install siege Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install siege
using apt
by running the following command:
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.
After updating apt database, We can install siege
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall siege on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the siege
package we can use the following command:
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:
Remove siege Configurations and Data
To remove siege
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
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:
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
.