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Installing environment modules without root permissions

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boegel edited this page Nov 21, 2012 · 20 revisions

This short guide will explain how to install the environment modules software package without root permissions, together with Tcl on which it depends.

Tcl

  1. Go to http://www.tcl.tk and download the latest Tcl sources.

At the time of writing, the latest available Tcl version was 8.5.13, which can be downloaded here. The remainder of these commands will assume Tcl v8.5.13 is being installed, you may need to adjust them accordingly.

  1. Unpack the Tcl source tarball:
tar xfvz tcl8.5.13-src.tar.gz

  1. Pick a location where you will install Tcl. It should be a directory you have write permissions on. My suggestion would be to use something like $HOME/.local/Tcl.

  2. Go to the unix subdirectory of the unpacked Tcl directory, and run the configure script using the --prefix option:

cd tcl8.5.13/unix
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local/Tcl

If you're building Tcl and environment modules on Mac, you should run configure in the tcl8.5.13/macosx directory instead.

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