How To Install coop-computing-tools on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install coop-computing-tools on Ubuntu.

What is `coop-computing-tools`

coop-computing-tools is:

This is a collection of software that help users to share resources in a complex, heterogeneous, and unreliable computing environment. This includes:

Chirp: A personal filesystem and I/O protocol that allows unprivileged users to share space securely, efficiently, and conveniently. When combined with Parrot, Chirp allows users to create custom wide-area distributed filesystems.
Parrot: A transparent user-level virtual filesystem that allows any ordinary program to be attached to a remote storage device such as an FTP server or a Chirp server.
Makeflow: A workflow system for parallel and distributed computing that uses a language very similar to Make.
Work Queue: A system and API for building master-worker style programs that scale up to thousands of processors.
All Pairs: A computational abstraction for running very large Cartesian products.
Wavefront: A computational abstraction for running very large dynamic programming problems.
The Fault Tolerant Shell: A high-level programming language that allows users to combine the ease of shell scripting, the power of distributed programming, and the precision of compiled languages. Basically, parallel programming and exception handling for scripts.

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

Install coop-computing-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install coop-computing-tools

Install coop-computing-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install coop-computing-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install coop-computing-tools

Install coop-computing-tools 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 coop-computing-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install coop-computing-tools

How To Uninstall coop-computing-tools on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the coop-computing-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove coop-computing-tools

Uninstall coop-computing-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall coop-computing-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove coop-computing-tools

Remove coop-computing-tools Configurations and Data

To remove coop-computing-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge coop-computing-tools

Remove coop-computing-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove coop-computing-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge coop-computing-tools

Dependencies

coop-computing-tools have the following dependencies:

References

coop-computing-tools website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install coop-computing-tools package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.