How To Install tsung on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsung on CentOS 7.
What is tsung
tsung is a distributed load testing tool. It is protocol-independent and can currently be used to stress and benchmark HTTP, Jabber/XMPP, PostgreSQL, MySQL and LDAP servers. It simulates user behavior using an XML description file, reports many measurements in real time (statistics can be customized with transactions, and graphics generated using GnuPlot). For HTTP, it supports 1.0 and 1.1, has a proxy mode to record sessions, supports GET and POST methods, Cookies, and Basic WWW-authentication. It also has support for SSL.
We can use yum or dnf to install tsung on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tsung.
Install tsung on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tsung using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tsung
Install tsung on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tsung using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tsung
How To Uninstall tsung on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tsung package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tsung
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsung on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
