How To Install StarCluster on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install StarCluster on CentOS 7.
What is StarCluster
StarCluster is an open source cluster-computing toolkit for Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). StarCluster has been designed to automate and simplify the process of building, configuring, and managing clusters of virtual machines on Amazon’s EC2 cloud. StarCluster allows anyone to easily create a cluster computing environment in the cloud suited for distributed and parallel computing applications and systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install StarCluster on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install StarCluster.
Install StarCluster on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install StarCluster using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install StarCluster
Install StarCluster on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install StarCluster using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install StarCluster
How To Uninstall StarCluster on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the StarCluster package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove StarCluster
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install StarCluster on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
