How To Install slurmd 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 slurmd on Ubuntu.
What is slurmd
slurmd is:
SLURM stands for Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, it is an open-source cluster resource management and job scheduling system that strives to be simple, scalable, portable, fault-tolerant, and interconnect agnostic. This package contains the compute node daemon slurmd.
There are three methods to install slurmd 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 slurmd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install slurmd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install slurmd
Install slurmd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install slurmd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install slurmd
Install slurmd 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 slurmd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install slurmd
How To Uninstall slurmd on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the slurmd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove slurmd
Uninstall slurmd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall slurmd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove slurmd
Remove slurmd Configurations and Data
To remove slurmd configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge slurmd
Remove slurmd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove slurmd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slurmd
Dependencies
slurmd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurmd package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.