How to Install and Uninstall cstream Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: September 20,2024

1. Install "cstream" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install cstream on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall cstream on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cstream
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cstream package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: cstream
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 88
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jonas Smedegaard
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.0.0-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Filename: pool/universe/c/cstream/cstream_3.0.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 26802
MD5sum: 418d0a46c59b82a1bbac082dcceabcb9
SHA1: 593257aa89e3085435906580cbdc09b15e804322
SHA256: 818a68bd9ccdc3363d20110dd432b029e8c7afb9c74996313d84c261da6f8a5c
Description-en: general-purpose stream-handling tool similar to dd
cstream is a general-purpose stream-handling tool like UNIX' dd,
usually used in commandline-constructed pipes.
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Features:
- Sane commandline switch syntax.
- Exact throughput limiting, on the incoming side. Timing variance in
previous reads are counterbalanced in the following reads.
- Precise throughput reporting. Either at the end of the transmission
or everytime SIGUSR1 is received. Quite useful to ask lengthy
operations how much data has been transferred yet, i.e. when
writing tapes. Reports are done in bytes/sec and if appropriate in
KB/sec or MB/sec, where 1K = 1024.
- SIGUSR2 causes a clean shutdown before EOF on input, timing
information is displayed.
- Build-in support to write its PID to a file, for painless sending of
these signals.
- Build-in support for fifos. Example usage is a 'pseudo-device',
something that sinks or delivers data at an appropriate rate, but
looks like a file, i.e. if you test soundcard software. See the
manpage for examples.
- Built-in data creation and sink, no more redirection of /dev/null
and /dev/zero. These special devices speed varies greatly among
operating systems, redirecting from it isn't appropriate
benchmarking and a waste of resources anyway.
- Accepts 'k', 'm' and 'g' character after number for "kilo, mega, giga"
bytes for overall data size limit.
- "gcc -Wall" clean source code, serious effort taken to avoid
undefined behaviour in ANSI C or POSIX, except long long is
required. Limiting and reporting works on data amounts > 4 GB.
Description-md5: 0a435fa6c408669059bc74ce6c889c6d
Homepage: http://www.cons.org/cracauer/cstream.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu