How To Install httperf on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install httperf on Ubuntu 22.04. httperf is HTTP server performance tester

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install httperf on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is httperf

httperf is:

httperf is a tool to measure web server performance. It speaks the HTTP protocol both in its HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 flavors and offers a variety of workload generators. While running, it keeps track of a number of performance metrics that are summarized in the form of statistics that are printed at the end of a test run.

This package provide httperf and idleconn commands.

There are three methods to install httperf 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 httperf Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install httperf

Install httperf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install httperf using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install httperf

Install httperf 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 httperf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install httperf

How To Uninstall httperf on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the httperf package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove httperf

Uninstall httperf And Its Dependencies

To uninstall httperf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove httperf

Remove httperf Configurations and Data

To remove httperf configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge httperf

Remove httperf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge httperf

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install httperf package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.