How To Install stressant on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stressant on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 stressant using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stressant
How To Uninstall stressant on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stressant
Remove stressant Configurations and Data
To remove stressant configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stressant package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
