How To Install toil on Debian 10

Learn how to install toil on Debian 10 with this tutorial. toil is cross-platform workflow engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install toil on Debian 10.

What is `toil`

toil is:

Toil is a scalable, efficient, cross-platform and easy-to-use workflow engine in pure Python. It works with several well established load balancers like Slurm or the Sun Grid Engine. Toil is also compatible with the Common Workflow Language (CWL) via the “toil-cwl-runner” interface, which this package make available via the Debian alternativess system under the alias “cwl-runner”.

There are three methods to install toil on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install toil Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install toil

Install toil Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install toil

Install toil 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 toil using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install toil

How To Uninstall toil on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove toil

Uninstall toil And Its Dependencies

To uninstall toil and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove toil

Remove toil Configurations and Data

To remove toil configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge toil

Remove toil configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge toil

Dependencies

toil have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install toil package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.