How To Install stress-ng on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress-ng on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is stress-ng
stress-ng is:
stress-ng can stress various subsystems of a computer. It can stress load CPU, cache, disk, memory, socket and pipe I/O, scheduling and much more. stress-ng is a re-write of the original stress tool by Amos Waterland but has many additional features such as specifying the number of bogo operations to run, execution metrics, a stress verification on memory and compute operations and considerably more stress mechanisms.
There are three methods to install stress-ng 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 stress-ng 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-ng using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stress-ng
Install stress-ng Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stress-ng using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stress-ng
Install stress-ng 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 stress-ng using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stress-ng
How To Uninstall stress-ng on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the stress-ng package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stress-ng
Uninstall stress-ng And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stress-ng and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stress-ng
Remove stress-ng Configurations and Data
To remove stress-ng configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stress-ng
Remove stress-ng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stress-ng configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stress-ng
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress-ng package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
