How to Install and Uninstall spew Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

You can also install and uninstall the spew on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "spew" package

Please follow the instructions below to install spew on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                spew
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "spew" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall spew on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                spew
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the spew package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: spew
Version: 1.0.8-1.1
Installed-Size: 148
Maintainer: Matt Taggart
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libncurses6 (>= 6), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Description: I/O performance measurement and load generation tool
Description-md5: 823e12e217c9f0e9dd4e24634b93b07e
Tag: admin::benchmarking, devel::testing-qa, hardware::storage,
implemented-in::c++, interface::commandline, interface::text-mode,
role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/spew/spew_1.0.8-1.1_amd64.deb
Size: 48356
MD5sum: 05b9de9f3688560caffd82cc4de42372
SHA256: 77ab3306f87ecf2ab38ba9d4972b582cc3a4d376a4d8ba391bf646053616470a