Environment-modules Lmod is a popular and powerful tool for managing multiple versions of software packages on Linux systems. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Lmod on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before you begin, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to install the necessary dependencies required to build Lmod. You can achieve this by executing the following command in your terminal:
sudo zypper install gcc gcc-c++ make automake autoconf libtool lua lua-devel ncurses-devel
This command will install the required development tools and libraries needed to build Lmod from source.
Next, download the Lmod source code by running the following command:
mkdir -p ~/src && cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/TACC/Lmod.git
This will clone the Lmod repository from Github to your user's ~/src directory.
Change your current directory to the cloned Lmod repository:
cd Lmod
Next, run the following commands to build and install Lmod:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
This will build and install Lmod on your system.
Finally, you need to add the Lmod environment variables to your system. Run the following command, which will add these variables to your system's /etc/profile.d directory:
sudo cp -p /usr/share/lmod/lmod/init/profile /etc/profile.d/z00_lmod.sh
To make the changes take effect, reload the environment variables by running the following command:
source /etc/profile.d/z00_lmod.sh
In this tutorial, you learned how to install and configure Lmod on OpenSUSE Latest. Lmod is now ready to use, and you can use it to manage multiple versions of software packages on your system.
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