How To Install ibacm on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibacm
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ibacm
ibacm is:
The IB ACM implements and provides a framework for name, address, and route (path) resolution services over InfiniBand. It is intended to address connection setup scalability issues running MPI applications on large clusters. The IB ACM provides information needed to establish a connection, but does not implement the CM protocol. A primary user of the ibacm service is the librdmacm library.
There are three methods to install ibacm
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 ibacm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ibacm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ibacm
Install ibacm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ibacm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ibacm
Install ibacm 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 ibacm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ibacm
How To Uninstall ibacm on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ibacm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ibacm
Uninstall ibacm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ibacm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibacm
Remove ibacm Configurations and Data
To remove ibacm
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ibacm
Remove ibacm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ibacm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibacm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibacm
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.