How To Install slurmctld on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurmctld on Debian 12.
What is slurmctld
slurmctld 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 contains the central management daemon slurmctld.
There are three methods to install slurmctld 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 slurmctld Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install slurmctld using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install slurmctld
Install slurmctld Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install slurmctld using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install slurmctld
Install slurmctld 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 slurmctld using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install slurmctld
How To Uninstall slurmctld on Debian 12
To uninstall only the slurmctld package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove slurmctld
Uninstall slurmctld And Its Dependencies
To uninstall slurmctld and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove slurmctld
Remove slurmctld Configurations and Data
To remove slurmctld configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge slurmctld
Remove slurmctld configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove slurmctld configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slurmctld
Dependencies
slurmctld have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurmctld package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
