How To Install slurmrestd on Debian 12

Learn how to install slurmrestd on Debian 12 with this tutorial. slurmrestd is Slurm REST API daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install slurmrestd on Debian 12.

What is slurmrestd

slurmrestd 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 REST API daemon slurmrestd.

There are three methods to install slurmrestd 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 slurmrestd Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install slurmrestd

Install slurmrestd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install slurmrestd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install slurmrestd

Install slurmrestd 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 slurmrestd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install slurmrestd

How To Uninstall slurmrestd on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove slurmrestd

Uninstall slurmrestd And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove slurmrestd

Remove slurmrestd Configurations and Data

To remove slurmrestd configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge slurmrestd

Remove slurmrestd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove slurmrestd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slurmrestd

Dependencies

slurmrestd have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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