How To Install blkreplay-examples on Ubuntu 20.04

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In this tutorial we learn how to install blkreplay-examples on Ubuntu 20.04. blkreplay-examples is block device testing and benchmarking toolkit (examples)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blkreplay-examples on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is blkreplay-examples

blkreplay-examples is:

blkreplay is a utility driving the block layer of the operating
system while measuring latency and throughput of I/O operations
for later visualisation.

blkreplay can create artificial loads (random read-write sweeps,
various kinds of overload tests) or replay natural loads which
have been recorded by blktrace or a similar utility run at
production servers.

blkreplay can be used to test physical hardware, to compare
different brands of hard disks or RAID controllers, to
evaluate the effect of SSD caching, to compare different
block level transports like iSCSI vs Fibrechannel and so on.

This package contains example configuration files and example
loads, artifician and natural.

There are three methods to install blkreplay-examples on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install blkreplay-examples Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install blkreplay-examples

Install blkreplay-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install blkreplay-examples

Install blkreplay-examples 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 blkreplay-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install blkreplay-examples

How To Uninstall blkreplay-examples on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the blkreplay-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove blkreplay-examples

Uninstall blkreplay-examples And Its Dependencies

To uninstall blkreplay-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove blkreplay-examples

Remove blkreplay-examples Configurations and Data

To remove blkreplay-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge blkreplay-examples

Remove blkreplay-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blkreplay-examples

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blkreplay-examples package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.

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