How To Install cylc on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install cylc on Debian 9. cylc is Workflow scheduler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cylc on Debian 9.

What is cylc

cylc is:

Cylc (“silk”) is a suite engine and meta-scheduler that specializes in suites of cycling tasks for weather forecasting, climate modeling, and related processing (it can also be used for one-off workflows of non-cycling tasks, which is a simpler problem).

There are three methods to install cylc on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cylc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cylc

Install cylc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cylc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cylc

Install cylc 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install cylc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cylc

How To Uninstall cylc on Debian 9

To uninstall only the cylc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cylc

Uninstall cylc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cylc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cylc

Remove cylc Configurations and Data

To remove cylc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cylc

Remove cylc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cylc

Dependencies

cylc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cylc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.