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In some instances a program which crashes or otherwise exits abnormally will leave behind a binary file, called a core file, containing a snapshot of the program's state at the moment that it crashed, typically with the extension ".core". While such files can be useful for programmers who are debugging the software in question, they are normally of no interest for regular users beyond the indication that something went wrong with the execution of the software, something already indicated by the job's output normally. You can therefore delete these files if you wish and add the line <tt>ulimit -c 0</tt> to the end of your $HOME/.bashrc file to ensure that they are no longer created.

When installing pre-compiled binary packages in your <code>$HOME</code>, they may fail with an error such as <tt>/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found</tt> at runtime. See [https://docs.computecanada.ca/wiki/Installing_software_in_your_home_directory#Installing_binary_packages Installing binary packages] for how to resolve this kind of issue.

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