How To Install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes on Ubuntu 22.04. nordugrid-arc-community-rtes is ARC community defined RTEs support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is nordugrid-arc-community-rtes

nordugrid-arc-community-rtes is:

NorduGrid is a collaboration aiming at development, maintenance and support of the middleware, known as the Advanced Resource Connector (ARC).

Community RTEs is the framework that allows deploying software packages (tarballs, containers, etc) provided by trusted communities to ARC CE using simple arcctl commands. It is released as a technology preview.

There are three methods to install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes

Install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes

Install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes

How To Uninstall nordugrid-arc-community-rtes on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the nordugrid-arc-community-rtes package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nordugrid-arc-community-rtes

Uninstall nordugrid-arc-community-rtes And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nordugrid-arc-community-rtes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nordugrid-arc-community-rtes

Remove nordugrid-arc-community-rtes Configurations and Data

To remove nordugrid-arc-community-rtes configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nordugrid-arc-community-rtes

Remove nordugrid-arc-community-rtes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nordugrid-arc-community-rtes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nordugrid-arc-community-rtes

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nordugrid-arc-community-rtes package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.