How To Install lmhttp on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install lmbench

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install lmbench

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is lmhttp and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install lmhttp on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install lmhttp on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install lmhttp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lmbench

Install lmhttp on CentOS 8 using yum

Because lmhttp is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install lmhttp package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lmbench

How to upgrade (update) a single package lmhttp using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like lmhttp in this example you should use the following command:

yum update lmbench

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade lmbench

How to Upgrade lmhttp on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update lmbench

How To remove lmhttp from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the lmhttp package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove lmbench

Extra info and code examples

Lmbench is a set of utilities to test the performance of a unix system producing detailed results as well as providing tools to process them. It includes a series of micro benchmarks that measure some basic operating system and hardware metrics: * file reading and summing * memory bandwidth while reading, writing and copying * copying data through pipes * copying data through Unix sockets * reading data through TCP/IP sockets

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install lmhttp using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the lmhttp from CentOS 8.

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