How To Install siege on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install siege on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 siege using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install siege
How To Uninstall siege on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove siege
Remove siege Configurations and Data
To remove siege configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install siege package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
