How To Install coop-computing-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install coop-computing-tools on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is coop-computing-tools
coop-computing-tools is:
This is a collection of software that help users to share resources in a complex, heterogeneous, and unreliable computing environment. This includes:
- Chirp: A personal filesystem and I/O protocol that allows unprivileged users to share space securely, efficiently, and conveniently. When combined with Parrot, Chirp allows users to create custom wide-area distributed filesystems.
- Parrot: A transparent user-level virtual filesystem that allows any ordinary program to be attached to a remote storage device such as an FTP server or a Chirp server.
- Makeflow: A workflow system for parallel and distributed computing that uses a language very similar to Make.
- Work Queue: A system and API for building master-worker style programs that scale up to thousands of processors.
- All Pairs: A computational abstraction for running very large Cartesian products.
- Wavefront: A computational abstraction for running very large dynamic programming problems.
- The Fault Tolerant Shell: A high-level programming language that allows users to combine the ease of shell scripting, the power of distributed programming, and the precision of compiled languages. Basically, parallel programming and exception handling for scripts.
There are three methods to install coop-computing-tools on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install coop-computing-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install coop-computing-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install coop-computing-tools
Install coop-computing-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install coop-computing-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install coop-computing-tools
Install coop-computing-tools Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install coop-computing-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install coop-computing-tools
How To Uninstall coop-computing-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the coop-computing-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove coop-computing-tools
Uninstall coop-computing-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall coop-computing-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove coop-computing-tools
Remove coop-computing-tools Configurations and Data
To remove coop-computing-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge coop-computing-tools
Remove coop-computing-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove coop-computing-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge coop-computing-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install coop-computing-tools package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
