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Installing Lmod without root permissions

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Kenneth Hoste edited this page May 28, 2013 · 30 revisions

This short guide will show how to install Lmod (and Lua, on which it depends) on Linux, without requiring root permissions.

INCOMPLETE, INSTRUCTIONS BELOW DON'T WORK YET

LuaDist

First, let's install the luadist tool, a convenient way to install Lua and Lua modules:

  1. Clone the LuaDist git repository:
mkdir LuaDist
cd LuaDist
git clone https://github.com/LuaDist/Repository.git
cd Repository
cat .gitmodules | sed 's@git://@https://@g' > /tmp/gitmodules; mv /tmp/gitmodules .gitmodules
cat .gitmodules >> .git/config 
git submodule update --init bootstrap lua lua-git luadist-git luafilesystem luasocket srlua zlib
./install bootstrap

Lua

  1. Go to https://github.com/LuaDist/lua/tags and download the latest Lua version. At the time of writing, the latest available Lua version was 5.2.2, which can be downloaded here. The remainder of these commands will assume Lua v5.2.2 is being installed, you may need to adjust them accordingly.

  2. Configuring the Lua build requires CMake (2.8 or more recent). Specify a prefix to install Lua in:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/lua -G 'Unix Makefiles'

  1. Build Lua by running make.

  2. Install Lua using make install.

  3. Make sure the lua binary is available in your $PATH (pro tip: put this in your .bashrc):

export PATH=$HOME/lua/bin:$PATH

Lmod

  1. Go to https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/tags and download the latest available Lmod version (v5.0rc4 at the time of writing).

  2. Configure the Lmod build, while specifying a prefix to Lmod in:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/lmod
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