- OS: Linux
- Python: Python 2.6 or 2.7 (support for Python 3 coming soon)
- Python packages:
setuptools - an environment modules tool, Lmod is recommended
- various common utilities like
make,patch,tar, ...
(see also https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html#requirements)
To install all requirements on a bare CentOS 7 system:
# EPEL is required for Lmod, python-pip packages
yum install -y epel-release
# direct EasyBuild dependencies
yum install -y python setuptools Lmod
# pip is only needed for 'pip install easybuild'
yum install -y python-pip
# various common utilities leveraged by EasyBuild
yum install -y file which git bzip2 gzip tar zip unzip xz patch make
# system C++ compilers (only needed to compile GCC from source)
yum install -y gcc-c++
# additional Perl modules required by Autotools
yum install -y perl-Data-Dumper
yum install -y perl-Thread-Queue
# openssl-devel for SSL support in CMake, Python
yum -y install openssl-devel
# rdma-core-devel is only needed for building OpenMPI with Infiniband support (which is done by default)
yum -y install rdma-core-devel
(see also https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html)
You should be able to install EasyBuild using pip, just like any other Python package:
sudo pip install easybuild
or
pip install --user easybuild
If you run into problems due to dependencies of the vsc-install and/or vsc-base packages that get installed
as dependencies, you can install slightly older versions of these first via:
pip install 'vsc-install<0.11.4' 'vsc-base<2.9.0'
The next major release of EasyBuild (4.0) will no longer depend on vsc-install & vsc-base.
If you don't have admin rights to install EasyBuild and prefer not to use pip, you can use the
bootstrap installation script to install EasyBuild with EasyBuild, and obtain an EasyBuild module to load:
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/develop/easybuild/scripts/bootstrap_eb.py
export EASYBUILD_PREFIX=$HOME
python bootstrap_eb.py $EASYBUILD_PREFIX
Once the bootstrap installation completes, you can load the EasyBuild module and get started:
module use $EASYBUILD_PREFIX/modules/all
module load EasyBuild
eb --version
See also https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html#bootstrapping-easybuild.
To update EasyBuild, either run pip install -U easybuild, or use eb --install-latest-eb-release to install an
EasyBuild module for the latest version of EasyBuild.