How To Install chaos-marmosets on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install chaos-marmosets on Ubuntu 22.04. chaos-marmosets is Small chaos monkey programs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chaos-marmosets on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is chaos-marmosets

chaos-marmosets is:

This project contains small programs that behave badly. They can be used for chaos engineering to test the system behavior and the infrastructure setup for those cases.

divide-by-zero tries to divide a number by zero. It will immediately exit with signal 4 (SIGILL). This program is useful to test the process core dump configuration. In case of using a bug reporting system like apport, this program allows testing reporting the crash and retracing it.

leak-memory: This program will eat your memory like Obelix eats cake until it will eventually trigger the out of memory (OOM) killer. This program is useful to test configured cgroups memory limitations and the OOM killer behavior.

seg-fault: This program tries write to address zero and will trigger a segmentation fault (signal 11). It is useful to test the process core dump configuration. In case of using a bug reporting system like apport, this program allows testing reporting the crash and retracing it.

There are three methods to install chaos-marmosets 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 chaos-marmosets Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install chaos-marmosets

Install chaos-marmosets Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install chaos-marmosets

Install chaos-marmosets 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 chaos-marmosets using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chaos-marmosets

How To Uninstall chaos-marmosets on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the chaos-marmosets package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove chaos-marmosets

Uninstall chaos-marmosets And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chaos-marmosets

Remove chaos-marmosets Configurations and Data

To remove chaos-marmosets configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge chaos-marmosets

Remove chaos-marmosets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chaos-marmosets

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Summary

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