How To Install slurm-wlm on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-wlm on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is slurm-wlm
slurm-wlm is:
SLURM stands for Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, it is an open-source cluster resource management and job scheduling system that strives to be simple, scalable, portable, fault-tolerant, and interconnect agnostic. This metapackage contains all client side commands, the compute node daemon and the central management demon.
There are three methods to install slurm-wlm on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install slurm-wlm 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install slurm-wlm
Install slurm-wlm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install slurm-wlm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install slurm-wlm
Install slurm-wlm 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 slurm-wlm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install slurm-wlm
How To Uninstall slurm-wlm on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the slurm-wlm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove slurm-wlm
Uninstall slurm-wlm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall slurm-wlm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove slurm-wlm
Remove slurm-wlm Configurations and Data
To remove slurm-wlm configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge slurm-wlm
Remove slurm-wlm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove slurm-wlm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slurm-wlm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-wlm package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.