How To Install gridengine-common on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridengine-common on Kali Linux. gridengine-common is Distributed resource management - common files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridengine-common on Kali Linux.

What is gridengine-common

gridengine-common 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 required shared files and the basic configuration.

There are three methods to install gridengine-common on Kali Linux. 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gridengine-common

Install gridengine-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gridengine-common

Install gridengine-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install gridengine-common

How To Uninstall gridengine-common on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gridengine-common

Uninstall gridengine-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gridengine-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gridengine-common

Remove gridengine-common Configurations and Data

To remove gridengine-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gridengine-common

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

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

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

Dependencies

gridengine-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridengine-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.