How To Install torque-gui on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-gui on CentOS 7. torque-gui is Graphical clients for TORQUE

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-gui on CentOS 7.

What is torque-gui

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 graphical clients.

We can use yum or dnf to install torque-gui on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install torque-gui.

Install torque-gui 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-gui using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install torque-gui

Install torque-gui 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-gui using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install torque-gui

How To Uninstall torque-gui on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the torque-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove torque-gui

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-gui on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.