[slurm-users] Building Debian packages - problem

[John Hearns via slurm-users]

I am trying to build Slurm version 24.11.6 on an Ubuntu 22.04 system.

I download and unpack the source

mk-build-deps -i debian/control   (not run as root)

debuild -b -uc -us

I get this error repeated many times:

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: can't extract name and version from library name 'libslurmfull.so'

Has anyone seen similar issues?

For information, there is an existing SLurm installation on this syste, with version 21 dpkgs from the Ubuntu repository.

[Steffen Grunewald via slurm-users]

Hi John,

Although this seems to be discouraged (I don't fully get why) it might
help to fetch the source package - both of the version you're currently
running, and the highest one you can find (perhaps for 25.04), and "steal"
(and adapt) the debian/* tree.
(When doing so, make sure you mark the build as a backport so you'll
get the regular one once you full-upgrade.)

You're aware of the requirement not to skip too many versions in between,
to keep the slurmdbd database alive?

Best,
S

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[John Hearns via slurm-users]

Steffen, thankyou for your reply.  This is a new installation, which is a small POC setup.
There is no need to keep the slurmdbd database alive.

[Paul Musset via slurm-users]

Hi,

Thats what I use in the gitlab ci and don't see these error anywhere
with slurm 24.11.6, on ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04

apt update && apt upgrade --yes
apt-get install --yes build-essential fakeroot devscripts munge equivs
curl --remote-name
"https://download.schedmd.com/slurm/slurm-${SLURM_VERSION}".tar.bz2
tar --extract --auto-compress --file="slurm-${SLURM_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
cd "slurm-${SLURM_VERSION}"
apt install --yes libmariadb-dev systemd
mk-build-deps --install --tool='apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes
--no-install-recommends --yes' debian/control
debuild -b -uc -us


Best
Paul


apt update && apt upgrade --yes
apt-get install --yes build-essential fakeroot devscripts munge equivs
curl --remote-name
"https://download.schedmd.com/slurm/slurm-${SLURM_VERSION}".tar.bz2
tar --extract --auto-compress --file="slurm-${SLURM_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
cd "slurm-${SLURM_VERSION}"
apt install --yes libmariadb-dev systemd
mk-build-deps --install --tool='apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes
--no-install-recommends --yes' debian/control
debuild -b -uc -us

[Stefan Staeglich via slurm-users]

I offer a PPA with packages based on the Debian source package:

https://launchpad.net/~staeglis/+archive/ubuntu/slurm-backports-24.11

Best,
Stefan

Am Dienstag, 22. Juli 2025, 17:17:27 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb John
Hearns via slurm-users:

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