How To Install stressant-meta on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install stressant-meta on Kali Linux. stressant-meta is stress-testing, benchmarking and recovery tools (meta-package)

Introduction

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

What is stressant-meta

stressant-meta is:

Meta-pacakge for the utilities documented in the stressant project.

Packages documented in the stressant manpage are direct dependencies here, while the Suggested packages are general-purpose rescue, diagnostic, forensics or testing tools that were found in other rescue images.

There are three methods to install stressant-meta 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-meta 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-meta using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install stressant-meta

Install stressant-meta Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install stressant-meta

Install stressant-meta 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-meta using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stressant-meta

How To Uninstall stressant-meta on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove stressant-meta

Uninstall stressant-meta And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stressant-meta

Remove stressant-meta Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge stressant-meta

Remove stressant-meta configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stressant-meta

Dependencies

stressant-meta have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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