Information about the package, singularity, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The singularity package is designed for, Enabling "Mobility of Compute" with container based applications.
Package Name:
singularity
Summary:
Enabling "Mobility of Compute" with container based applications
Description:
Singularity is a container platform focused on supporting "Mobility of Compute". Mobility of Compute encapsulates the development to compute model where developers can work in an environment of their choosing and creation and when the developer needs additional compute resources, this environment can easily be copied and executed on other platforms. Additionally as the primary use case for Singularity is targeted towards computational portability, many of the barriers to entry of other container solutions do not apply to Singularity making it an ideal solution for users (both computational and non-computational) and HPC centers.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.2.1
Release:
3.el6
Size:
59 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LBNL BSD
Control the singularity package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install singularity
This command will install singularity on the server.
yum remove singularity
This command will un-install singularity on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove singularity, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove singularity
This command will un-install singularity on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove singularity when using the -y flag.
yum update singularity
This command will update singularity to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove singularity, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update singularity
This command will update singularity to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove singularity when using the -y flag.
yum info singularity
This command will show you core information about the singularity package.
yum deplist singularity
This command will show you the dependencies for singularity. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update singularity
This command will check if there is an update waiting on singularity. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.