How To Install molequeue on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install molequeue on CentOS 7. molequeue is Desktop integration of high performance computing resources

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install molequeue on CentOS 7.

What is molequeue

MoleQueue is an open-source, cross-platform, system-tray resident desktop application for abstracting, managing, and coordinating the execution of tasks both locally and on remote computational resources. Users can set up local and remote queues that describe where the task will be executed. Each queue can have programs, with templates to facilitate the execution of the program. Input files can be staged, and output files collected using a standard interface. Some highlights * Open source distributed under the liberal 3-clause BSD license * Cross platform with nightly builds on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows * Intuitive interface designed to be useful to whole community * Support for local executation and remote schedulers (SGE, PBS, SLURM) * System tray resident application managing queue of queues and job lifetime * Simple, lightweight JSON-RPC 2.0 based communication over local sockets * Qt 5 client library for simple integration in Qt applications

We can use yum or dnf to install molequeue on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install molequeue.

Install molequeue on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install molequeue using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install molequeue

Install molequeue on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install molequeue using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install molequeue

How To Uninstall molequeue on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the molequeue package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove molequeue

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install molequeue on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.