How to Install Spack on Manjaro

Spack is an open-source package manager that simplifies installation and management of software packages, libraries and dependencies. Here's how to install Spack on Manjaro:

Prerequisites

• A Manjaro-based Linux distributions
• A terminal or shell prompt

Steps

1. Open your terminal or shell prompt.
2. Install dependencies:

sudo pacman -S git libarchive gcc

3. Clone Spack onto your machine with Git:

git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
cd spack/

4. Modify shell configuration file, and export Spack's binary to environment variables:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/spack/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export SPACK_ROOT="$HOME/spack"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

5. Test Spack's configuration:

spack compiler find

6. To install packages via spack, run the following commands:

• Update Spack's repositories:

spack repo add https://github.com/spack/spack.git
spack repo add https://github.com/spack/spack-packages.git

• Search for a package:

spack find

• Install a package:

spack install <package_name>

Conclusion

Now that you've installed Spack on your Manjaro machine, you can explore Spack's functionality to manage your software dependencies with ease.

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