How To Install slurm-contribs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-contribs on CentOS 8.
What is slurm-contribs
Slurm contribution package which includes the programs seff, sjobexitmod, sjstat and smail. See their respective man pages for more information.
We can use yum or dnf to install slurm-contribs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slurm-contribs.
Install slurm-contribs on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install slurm-contribs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slurm-contribs
Install slurm-contribs on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install slurm-contribs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slurm-contribs
How To Uninstall slurm-contribs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the slurm-contribs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slurm-contribs
slurm-contribs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/seff
/usr/bin/sgather
/usr/bin/sjobexitmod
/usr/bin/sjstat
/usr/bin/smail
/usr/share/doc/slurm
/usr/share/doc/slurm/contribs
/usr/share/doc/slurm/contribs/README
/usr/share/doc/slurm/contribs/lua
/usr/share/doc/slurm/contribs/lua/job_submit.license.lua
/usr/share/doc/slurm/contribs/lua/job_submit.lua
/usr/share/man/man1/sgather.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sjobexitmod.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sjstat.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-contribs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.