How To Install cylc-flow on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cylc-flow on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cylc-flow
cylc-flow is:
Cylc (“silk”) is a suite engine and meta-scheduler that specializes in suites of cycling tasks for weather forecasting, climate modeling, and related processing (it can also be used for one-off workflows of non-cycling tasks, which is a simpler problem).
There are three methods to install cylc-flow on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cylc-flow Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cylc-flow using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cylc-flow
Install cylc-flow Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cylc-flow using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cylc-flow
Install cylc-flow 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cylc-flow using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cylc-flow
How To Uninstall cylc-flow on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cylc-flow package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cylc-flow
Uninstall cylc-flow And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cylc-flow and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cylc-flow
Remove cylc-flow Configurations and Data
To remove cylc-flow configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cylc-flow
Remove cylc-flow configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cylc-flow configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cylc-flow
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cylc-flow package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.