How To Install dmtcp on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmtcp on AlmaLinux 8.
What is dmtcp
DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing) is a tool to transparently checkpointing the state of an arbitrary group of applications including multi-threaded and distributed computations. It operates directly on the user binary executable, with no Linux kernel modules or other kernel mods. Among the applications supported by DMTCP are Open MPI, MVAPICH2, MATLAB, R, Python, Perl, and many programming languages and shell scripting languages. It supports both TCP sockets and InfiniBand connections. With the use of TightVNC, it can also checkpoint and restart X-Window applications. The OpenGL library for 3D graphics is supported through a special plugin. This package contains DMTCP binaries.
We can use yum or dnf to install dmtcp on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dmtcp.
Install dmtcp on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dmtcp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dmtcp
Install dmtcp on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dmtcp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dmtcp
How To Uninstall dmtcp on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the dmtcp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dmtcp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmtcp on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.