How To Install fio on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fio on Ubuntu.
What is fio
fio is:
fio is a tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a particular type of I/O action as specified by the user. fio takes a number of global parameters, each inherited by the thread unless otherwise parameters given to them overriding that setting is given. The typical use of fio is to write a job file matching the I/O load one wants to simulate.
This package contains the command line version of fio and all additional command line tools. The package gfio contains the GTK+ based gui frontend for fio.
There are three methods to install fio on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fio Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fio using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fio
Install fio Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fio using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fio
Install fio 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 fio using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fio
How To Uninstall fio on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the fio package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fio
Uninstall fio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fio
Remove fio Configurations and Data
To remove fio configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fio
Remove fio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fio
Dependencies
fio have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fio package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.