How To Install sview on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sview on Kali Linux.

What is sview

sview is:

SLURM, the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, is an open-source cluster resource management and job scheduling. This package contains sview a GUI that can be used to view SLURM configuration, job, step, node and partitions state information. Authorized users can also modify select information.

There are three methods to install sview on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install sview Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sview

Install sview Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sview

Install sview Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install sview

How To Uninstall sview on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove sview

Uninstall sview And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sview

Remove sview Configurations and Data

To remove sview configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sview

Remove sview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sview

Dependencies

sview have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• slurm-client

References

• sview website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sview package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.