How To Install stress on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is stress

stress is:

‘stress’ is a tool that imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O, or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system and reports any errors it detects.

‘stress’ is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system administrators to evaluate how well their systems will scale, by kernel programmers to evaluate perceived performance characteristics, and by systems programmers to expose the classes of bugs which only or more frequently manifest themselves when the system is under heavy load.

There are three methods to install stress 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 stress Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install stress using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install stress

Install stress Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install stress using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install stress

Install stress 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 stress using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stress

How To Uninstall stress on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the stress package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove stress

Uninstall stress And Its Dependencies

To uninstall stress and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stress

Remove stress Configurations and Data

To remove stress configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge stress

Remove stress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove stress configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stress

Dependencies

stress have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• stress website

Summary

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