How To Install slurm-wlm-plugins on Debian 12

Learn how to install slurm-wlm-plugins on Debian 12 with this tutorial. slurm-wlm-plugins is Slurm free plugins (metapackage)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-wlm-plugins on Debian 12.

What is slurm-wlm-plugins

slurm-wlm-plugins 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. This package provides all the free Slurm plugins.

There are three methods to install slurm-wlm-plugins 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 slurm-wlm-plugins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install slurm-wlm-plugins

Install slurm-wlm-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install slurm-wlm-plugins

Install slurm-wlm-plugins 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 slurm-wlm-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install slurm-wlm-plugins

How To Uninstall slurm-wlm-plugins on Debian 12

To uninstall only the slurm-wlm-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove slurm-wlm-plugins

Uninstall slurm-wlm-plugins And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove slurm-wlm-plugins

Remove slurm-wlm-plugins Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge slurm-wlm-plugins

Remove slurm-wlm-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slurm-wlm-plugins

Dependencies

slurm-wlm-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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