[slurm-users] How to install a newer slurm version on Ubuntu 18.04

[mohammed shambakey]

Many thanks. I'll try building from the source

Regards

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 6:41 PM Reed Dier <reed.dier at focusvq.com> wrote:

> On the third node (with Ubuntu 18.04), I tried to add the following line
> to /etc/apt/sources.list:
> *deb http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
> <http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu> jammy main universe*
>
>
> You definitely can’t just add the jammy repos to a bionic system.
> This will more or less break apt in many ways due to dependencies.
>
> I wonder if it is possible to install slurm 21.08.5 on Ubuntu 18.04? or I
> should downgrade the installed slurm on the other nodes to slurm 17.11.2?
>
>
> As someone who is running slurm on ubuntu, I highly recommend ripping the
> bandaid off and building from source.
> The ubuntu/debian packages run really far behind, and don’t provide a ton
> of flexibility for upgrades or fixes.
>
> Grab the tarball, and then run
>
> ./configure —prefix=$PREFIX}/slurm-$SLURM_VERSION —sysconfdir=/etc/slurm;
>         make -j $NUM_CPUS;
>         make install
>
>
> $PREFIX would be where you want to install the slurm binaries to/run them
> from, which may be an NFS share or something like that.
> I would also strongly recommend not mixing Ubuntu releases in the same
> cluster.
>
> Reed
>
> On Apr 14, 2023, at 11:12 AM, mohammed shambakey <shambakey1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm new to slurm, and sorry if this is a repeated email. I have a cluster
> at my work consisting of one head node, and 3 compute nodes. Ubuntu 22.04
> is installed on the head node, and 2 compute nodes, whereas the third has
> Ubuntu 18.04 (it is needed because it hosts an old M10 GPU).
>
> I installed slurm 21.08.5 on the head node, and the 2 compute nodes with
> Ubuntu 22.04. On the third node (with Ubuntu 18.04), I tried to add the
> following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> *deb http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
> <http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu> jammy main universe*
>
> Then, I tried to update the third machine and install the slurmd package,
> but I receive the following error:
>
> Setting up slurm-wlm-basic-plugins (21.08.5-2ubuntu1) ...
> cp: cannot stat '/etc/slurm-llnl/.': No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing package slurm-wlm-basic-plugins (--configure):
>  installed slurm-wlm-basic-plugins package post-installation script
> subprocess returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of slurmd:
>  slurmd depends on slurm-wlm-basic-plugins (= 21.08.5-2ubuntu1); however:
>   Package slurm-wlm-basic-plugins is not configured yet.
>
> dpkg: error processing package slurmd (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of slurm-client:
>  slurm-client depends on slurm-wlm-basic-plugins (= 21.08.5-2ubuntu1);
> however:
>   Package slurm-wlm-basic-plugins is not configured yet.
>
> dpkg: error processing package slurm-client (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
> followup error from a previous failure.
>
>                                 No apport report written because the error
> message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  slurm-wlm-basic-plugins
>  slurmd
>  slurm-client
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> I wonder if it is possible to install slurm 21.08.5 on Ubuntu 18.04? or I
> should downgrade the installed slurm on the other nodes to slurm 17.11.2?
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Mohammed
>
>
>

-- 
Mohammed
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