How To Install cylc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cylc on Debian 9.
What is cylc
cylc is:
Cylc (“silk”) is a suite engine and meta-scheduler that specializes in suites of cycling tasks for weather forecasting, climate modeling, and related processing (it can also be used for one-off workflows of non-cycling tasks, which is a simpler problem).
There are three methods to install cylc on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cylc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cylc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cylc
Install cylc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cylc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cylc
Install cylc 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cylc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cylc
How To Uninstall cylc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the cylc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cylc
Uninstall cylc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cylc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cylc
Remove cylc Configurations and Data
To remove cylc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cylc
Remove cylc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cylc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cylc
Dependencies
cylc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cylc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.