How To Install twiggy 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 twiggy on Ubuntu.
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. 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
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, 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 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
Dependencies
twiggy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install twiggy package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.