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