How To Install torque-client on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-client on CentOS 7.
What is torque-client
TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. TORQUE is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations. This package holds the command-line client programs.
We can use yum or dnf to install torque-client on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install torque-client.
Install torque-client on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install torque-client using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install torque-client
Install torque-client on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install torque-client using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install torque-client
How To Uninstall torque-client on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the torque-client package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove torque-client
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-client on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
