wiki:Admin/StandardOperatingProcedures/InstallSoftwareFromSource

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Software install from source package as a module

  1. module load gridadmin
  2. gridadmin
  3. Dowload the software to /opt/sources
  4. Untar/unzip the source file (e.g. tar xzf sour-x.y.z.tar.gz)
  5. Create install dir, and populate with standard directories: mkdir -p /opt/sw/[package name]/[version] && ( cd /opt/sw/[package name]/[version] && mkroot -m )
  6. Cd into source directory
  7. Configure and install software (e.g. for a typical package ./configure --prefix=/opt/sw/[package name]/[version] && make && make install
  8. Create a modulefile called /opt/modulefiles/[package name]/[version] by copying and editing from some other module file, for example. See man modulefile
  9. If some default version should be there, create/modify /opt/modulefiles/[package name]/.version to specify default.