Spack is a package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS systems. It simplifies the installation and management of scientific software packages. This tutorial provides the steps to install Spack on Debian.
Before installing Spack, make sure that you have necessary dependencies installed on your system.
sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git python3 python3-pip python3-dev
You can download Spack as a compressed archive from the Spack website.
cd /tmp
curl -OL https://github.com/spack/spack/archive/v0.16.4.tar.gz
tar xf v0.16.4.tar.gz
To use Spack, it is required to add the installation directory to the PATH environment variable.
export PATH=/tmp/spack-0.16.4/bin:$PATH
To make this change permanent, add the above command to the end of the ~/.bashrc file.
echo "export PATH=/tmp/spack-0.16.4/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
After Spack installation and adding its path to the PATH environment variable, run the setup command which initializes Spack.
spack setup
To validate the installation and check the version of Spack, use the following command.
$ spack --version
In this tutorial, we have installed Spack on Debian latest. Spack simplifies installation and management of scientific software packages.
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