How To Install slurm-libs on CentOS 8

slurm-libs is Slurm shared libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-libs on CentOS 8.

What is slurm-libs

Slurm shared libraries.

We can use yum or dnf to install slurm-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slurm-libs.

Install slurm-libs 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-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install slurm-libs

Install slurm-libs 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-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install slurm-libs

How To Uninstall slurm-libs on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the slurm-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove slurm-libs

slurm-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/e9134b05d9ac69c4c3fb9a69c06456933330f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/87ba07fc0f88f9a41712ae427a620822fd2849
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/60a354e634e0a4ba3c11b9236bc9325bff0b74
/usr/lib64/libslurm.so.36
/usr/lib64/libslurm.so.36.0.0
/usr/lib64/libslurm_pmi-20.11.8.so
/usr/lib64/libslurmfull-20.11.8.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.