Installing Gridware

Once a Gridware package has been chosen to install - users and administrators can install the package with the alces gridware install command.

For example, to install the ffmpeg 1.1.4 package:

[alces-cluster@login1(hpc1) ~]$ alces gridware install ffmpeg/1.1.4
Installing base/apps/ffmpeg/1.1.4

 > Preparing package sources
        Download --> ffmpeg-1.1.4.tar.bz2 ... OK
          Verify --> ffmpeg-1.1.4.tar.bz2 ... OK

 > Preparing for installation
           Mkdir ... OK (/var/cache/gridware/src/apps/ffmpeg/1.1.4/gcc-4.4.7)
         Extract ... OK

 > Proceeding with installation
         Compile ... OK
           Mkdir ... OK (/opt/gridware/depots/3f1fa123/el6/pkg/apps/ffmpeg/1.1.4/gcc-4.4.7)
         Install ... OK
          Module ... OK

Installation complete.

The ffmpeg/1.1.4 package will then be available through Alces Modules