How To Install libpam-slurm-adopt on Debian 12

Learn how to install libpam-slurm-adopt on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libpam-slurm-adopt is PAM module to authenticate users running a Slurm job and track their processes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpam-slurm-adopt on Debian 12.

What is libpam-slurm-adopt

libpam-slurm-adopt is:

The Slurm Workload Manager is an open-source cluster resource management and job scheduling system that strives to be simple, scalable, portable, fault-tolerant, and interconnect agnostic. Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) for restricting access to compute nodes where Slurm performs resource management to users who have a running job. The user’s connection is “adopted” into the “external” step of the job so that processes spawned are tracked and Slurm can perform a complete cleanup when the job is completed.

There are three methods to install libpam-slurm-adopt 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 libpam-slurm-adopt Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libpam-slurm-adopt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libpam-slurm-adopt

Install libpam-slurm-adopt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libpam-slurm-adopt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libpam-slurm-adopt

Install libpam-slurm-adopt 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 libpam-slurm-adopt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpam-slurm-adopt

How To Uninstall libpam-slurm-adopt on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libpam-slurm-adopt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpam-slurm-adopt

Uninstall libpam-slurm-adopt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpam-slurm-adopt

Remove libpam-slurm-adopt Configurations and Data

To remove libpam-slurm-adopt configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libpam-slurm-adopt

Remove libpam-slurm-adopt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libpam-slurm-adopt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpam-slurm-adopt

Dependencies

libpam-slurm-adopt have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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