How to Install Spack on OpenSUSE Latest

In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps to install Spack on OpenSUSE Latest. Spack (https://spack.io/) is a powerful package manager for scientific computing that enables reproducible builds and provides flexibility to manage different versions of packages.

Step 1: Update System Packages

Before installing Spack, it's essential to ensure that your system is updated with the latest packages. To do this, run the following command in your terminal:

sudo zypper update

Step 2: Install Required Dependencies

Next, we need to install the required dependencies for Spack. Run the following command to install the required packages:

sudo zypper install gcc gcc-c++ gcc-fortran make libopenssl-devel tcl-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libyaml-devel readline-devel sqlite3-devel zlib-devel unzip git file perl-Data-Dumper

Step 3: Download and Install Spack

Once the required dependencies are installed, we can download and install Spack on your system. The following commands will download the latest version of Spack from the official repository and install it:

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
sudo mv spack /opt/
echo ". /opt/spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

The above commands install Spack in the /opt/ directory and set up the environment variable setup-env.sh to run every time you open a new terminal.

Step 4: Verify the Installation

To verify that Spack is installed correctly, run the following command:

spack --version

This command should display the version of Spack installed on your system.

Conclusion

We've successfully installed Spack on OpenSUSE Latest. Spack is an efficient package manager for scientific computing, and it enables reproducible builds and package management. With Spack, you can easily manage different versions of packages, making it easier to work with incompatibilities between packages.

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