Installing software in your home directory: Difference between revisions

[[Python]], [[R]], and [[Perl]] are languages with large libraries of extension packages, and package managers that can easily install almost any desired extension in your home directory. See the page for each language to find out if the package you're looking for is already available on our systems. If it is not, you should also find detailed guidance there on using that language's package manager to install it for yourself.

If you install pre-compiled binaries in your home directory (for example [https://conda.io/miniconda.html Miniconda]) they may fail using errors such as <code>/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found</code>. Often such binaries can be patched using our <code>setrpaths.sh</code> script, using the syntax <code>setrpaths.sh --path path [--add_origin]</code> where path refers to the directory where you installed that software. This script will make sure that the binaries use the correct interpreter, and search for the libraries they are dynamically linked to in the correct folder. The option <code>--add_origin</code> will also add $ORIGIN to the RUNPATH. This is sometimes helpful if the library cannot find other libraries in the same folder as itself.