How To Install condor on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install condor on CentOS 7.
What is condor
HTCondor is a workload management system for high-throughput and high-performance jobs. Like other full-featured batch systems, HTCondor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to HTCondor, HTCondor places them into a queue, chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion.
We can use yum or dnf to install condor on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install condor.
Install condor on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install condor using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install condor
Install condor 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 condor using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install condor
How To Uninstall condor on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the condor package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove condor
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install condor on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
