How To Install spew on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spew
on Debian 11.
What is spew
spew is:
Spew is used to measure I/O performance of character devices, block devices, and regular files. It can also be used to generate high I/O loads to stress systems while verifying data integrity.
Spew is easy to use and is flexible. No configuration files or complicated client/server configurations are needed. Spew also generates its own data patterns that are designed to make it easy to find and debug data integrity problems.
There are three methods to install spew
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install spew Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spew
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spew
Install spew Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spew
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spew
Install spew 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install spew
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spew
How To Uninstall spew on Debian 11
To uninstall only the spew
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spew
Uninstall spew And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spew
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spew
Remove spew Configurations and Data
To remove spew
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spew
Remove spew configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spew
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spew
Dependencies
spew have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spew
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.