How To Install twiggy on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install twiggy
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is twiggy
twiggy is:
Twiggy is a lightweight and fast HTTP server with unique features:
- Can run any PSGI applications. Fully supports psgi.nonblocking and psgi.streaming interfaces.
- This server uses AnyEvent and runs in a non-blocking event loop, so it’s best to run event-driven web applications that runs I/O bound jobs or delayed responses such as long-poll, WebSocket or streaming content (server push).
- Uses XS/C based HTTP header parser for the best performance. (optional)
- The memory required to run twiggy is 6MB and it can serve more than 4500 req/s with a single process on Perl 5.10 with MacBook Pro 13" late 2009.
- Supports Server::Starter for hot deploy and graceful restarts.
There are three methods to install twiggy
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install twiggy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install twiggy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install twiggy
Install twiggy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install twiggy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install twiggy
Install twiggy 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 twiggy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install twiggy
How To Uninstall twiggy on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the twiggy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove twiggy
Uninstall twiggy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall twiggy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove twiggy
Remove twiggy Configurations and Data
To remove twiggy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge twiggy
Remove twiggy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove twiggy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge twiggy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install twiggy
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.