How To Install slurm-gui on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-gui on CentOS 8.
What is slurm-gui
This package contains the Slurm visual tool sview and its respective man pages.
We can use yum or dnf to install slurm-gui on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slurm-gui.
Install slurm-gui 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-gui using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slurm-gui
Install slurm-gui 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-gui using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slurm-gui
How To Uninstall slurm-gui on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the slurm-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slurm-gui
slurm-gui Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/sview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/d7fa9f158db674d84514f8baa58054eb0bfc34
/usr/share/applications/slurm-sview.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/slurm.png
/usr/share/man/man1/sview.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-gui on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.