How To Install stress on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress on AlmaLinux 8.
What is stress
stress is not a benchmark, but is rather a tool designed to put given subsytems under a specified load. Instances in which this is useful include those in which a system administrator wishes to perform tuning activities, a kernel or libc programmer wishes to evaluate denial of service possibilities, etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install stress on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stress.
Install stress on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install stress using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stress
Install stress on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install stress using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stress
How To Uninstall stress on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the stress package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stress
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
