Installation

First get the latest stable source of the package from:

• ​ftp://ftp.surfsara.nl/pub/outgoing/pbs_python.tar.gz

Then unpack the package. There are 4 methods to build the package:

• No package manager, builds default for /usr/local

  ./configure 
  make
  make install
  

• Debian package:

  debian/rules binary
  dpkg -i pbs_python*.deb
  

• RPM package

  cp pbs_python.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
  rpmbuild -ba pbs_python.spec
  

• Gentoo installation (Gentoo packages pbs_python, so you don't need to download the source by hand)

  emerge -av sys-cluster/pbs-python
  

• Fedora or EPEL for RHEL/CentOS/SL

Enable the ​EPEL repositories on RHEL/CentOS/SL

yum install python-pbs

on EPEL 5 a python 2.6 module is also available.

yum install python26-pbs

Test the package

There are examples included in the package, Run pbsnodes-a.py and if there is output then everything is properly installed.