How To Install tsung on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsung on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tsung
tsung is:
Tsung is a distributed load testing tool. It can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers.
The purpose of Tsung is to simulate users in order to test the scalability and performance of IP based client/server applications. You can use it to do load and stress testing of your servers. Many protocols have been implemented and tested, and it can be easily extended. WebDAV, LDAP and MySQL support have been added recently (experimental).
For HTTP, it support 1.0 and 1.1 version, has a proxy mode to record sessions, support GET and POST method, Cookies and Basic WWW-authentication. It also has support for SSL.
It can be distributed on several client machines and is able to simulate hundreds of thousands of virtual users concurrently (or even millions if you have enough hardware …).
There are three methods to install tsung 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 tsung Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tsung using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tsung
Install tsung Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tsung using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tsung
Install tsung 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 tsung using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tsung
How To Uninstall tsung on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tsung package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tsung
Uninstall tsung And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tsung and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tsung
Remove tsung Configurations and Data
To remove tsung configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tsung
Remove tsung configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tsung configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tsung
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsung package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
