How To Install spew on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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 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 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 spew using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spew

How To Uninstall spew on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spew

Remove spew Configurations and Data

To remove spew configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• spew website

Summary

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