How To Install stressant on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install stressant on Kali Linux. stressant is simple stress testing and burn-in tool

Introduction

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

What is stressant

stressant is:

stressant is designed to run on new machines to make sure they will work reliably by testing various parts of the system (CPU, RAM, disk, network) by putting them under heavy load and try to detect failures.

As much as possible, stressant tries to reuse existing tools to perform the various tasks and aims to be run automatically.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install stressant

Install stressant Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install stressant

Install stressant 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 stressant using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stressant

How To Uninstall stressant on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove stressant

Uninstall stressant And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stressant

Remove stressant Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge stressant

Remove stressant configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stressant

Dependencies

stressant have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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