How To Install gridengine-client on Debian 12

Learn how to install gridengine-client on Debian 12 with this tutorial. gridengine-client is Utilities for Grid Engine queue management

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridengine-client on Debian 12.

What is gridengine-client

gridengine-client is:

Grid Engine is software that facilitates “distributed resource management” (DRM). Far more than just simple load-balancing tools or batch scheduling mechanisms, DRM software typically provides the following key features across large sets of distributed resources:

  • Policy based allocation of distributed resources (CPU time, software licenses, etc.)
  • Batch queuing & scheduling
  • Support diverse server hardware, OS and architectures
  • Load balancing & remote job execution
  • Detailed job accounting statistics
  • Fine-grained user specifiable resources
  • Suspend/resume/migrate jobs
  • Tools for reporting Job/Host/Cluster status
  • Job Arrays
  • Integration & control of parallel jobs

This package contains the Grid Engine user utilities.

There are three methods to install gridengine-client on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gridengine-client Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gridengine-client using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gridengine-client

Install gridengine-client Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gridengine-client using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gridengine-client

Install gridengine-client 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 gridengine-client using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gridengine-client

How To Uninstall gridengine-client on Debian 12

To uninstall only the gridengine-client package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gridengine-client

Uninstall gridengine-client And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gridengine-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gridengine-client

Remove gridengine-client Configurations and Data

To remove gridengine-client configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gridengine-client

Remove gridengine-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gridengine-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gridengine-client

Dependencies

gridengine-client have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridengine-client package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.