Obtaining the Source Code
You can download the Sysbench source package and decompress it by running the wget command or from GitHub. The following procedure uses Sysbench 0.5 as an example.
In the following commands, 0.5 indicates the Sysbench version. When installing another version, replace 0.5 with the actual version.
- Download the Sysbench source package and save it to the /home directory.
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cd /home wget https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench/archive/0.5.zip --no-check-certificate mv 0.5.zip sysbench-0.5.zip
You can also download the source code using a browser and upload it to the /home directory on the server. URL: https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench/tree/0.5
- Click Code to open the drop-down menu.
- Click Download ZIP to download the Sysbench source package.

- Decompress the Sysbench source package.
1unzip sysbench-0.5.zip
Parent topic: Sysbench 0.5 & 1.0 Test Guide