How To Install torque on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install torque on Fedora 34.
What is torque
TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. TORQUE is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations. This package holds just a few shared files and directories.
We can use yum or dnf to install torque on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install torque.
Install torque on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install torque using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install torque
Install torque on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install torque using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install torque
How To Uninstall torque on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the torque package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove torque
torque Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/torque/pbs_environment
/etc/torque/server_name
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/7ffb5b284ca956421696bb971e2a89a75d6ec3
/usr/lib/systemd/system/trqauthd.service
/usr/sbin/trqauthd
/usr/share/doc/torque
/usr/share/doc/torque/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/torque/PBS_License.txt
/usr/share/doc/torque/PBS_License_2.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/torque/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/torque/README.torque
/usr/share/doc/torque/Release_Notes
/usr/share/doc/torque/torque.setup
/usr/share/man/man1/pbs.1.gz
/var/lib/torque
/var/lib/torque/aux
/var/lib/torque/checkpoint
/var/lib/torque/pbs_environment
/var/lib/torque/server_name
/var/lib/torque/spool
/var/lib/torque/undelivered
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install torque on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
