How To Install slurmdbd on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurmdbd on Debian 12.
What is slurmdbd
slurmdbd is:
The Slurm Workload Manager is an open-source cluster resource management and job scheduling system that strives to be simple, scalable, portable, fault-tolerant, and interconnect agnostic. This package contain SlurmDBD (Slurm DataBase Daemon) that can be used to securely manage the accounting data for several Slurm clusters in a central location and sacctmgr a command for managing user accounts in SlurmDBD.
There are three methods to install slurmdbd on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install slurmdbd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install slurmdbd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install slurmdbd
Install slurmdbd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install slurmdbd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install slurmdbd
Install slurmdbd 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 slurmdbd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install slurmdbd
How To Uninstall slurmdbd on Debian 12
To uninstall only the slurmdbd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove slurmdbd
Uninstall slurmdbd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall slurmdbd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove slurmdbd
Remove slurmdbd Configurations and Data
To remove slurmdbd configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge slurmdbd
Remove slurmdbd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove slurmdbd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slurmdbd
Dependencies
slurmdbd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurmdbd package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
