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Installing Software
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- [Overview](installation_overview)
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-- [Site installation](managing_install)
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-- [Graphical installation manager](client_install)
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+- [Graphical installation manager](sbgrid-gui)
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- [Command line installation manager](sbgrid-cli)
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-- [Installation on macOS 10.15+ (Catalina, Big Sur)](catalina)
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Using the SBGrid Environment
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- [Getting Started with SBGrid](getting_started)
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-- [Managing Software Versions](versions)
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- [SBGrid Capsules Environment](capsules)
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-- [SBGrid Legacy Environment](monolithic)
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- [Modulefiles for SBGrid](modulefiles)
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-Getting Help
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Support for Site Administrators
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-- [Preparing Workstations to run the Software](workstation_setup)
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+- [Required packages to run the Software](workstation_setup)
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- [Managing your Installation](managing_install)
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- [Administrator Software Version Overrides](admin_overrides)
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Hardware Support Notes
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- [Setup Stereo 3D](stereo)
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- [SBGrid on AWS EC2](AWS)
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Portals
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- [Data Processing After WSMR](wsmr-worked)
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# SBGrid software environment
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-SBGrid Capsules is a new software environment which is significantly faster than the older 'monolithic' shell environment. This environment includes added features for users to manage their software. Older features (such as version selection) are still present but improved. Old scripts should run unaltered and no new commands are required.
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+The SBGrid Capsule software environment which is significantly faster than the older 'monolithic' shell environment. This environment includes added features for users to manage software versions and duplicate executables. Older features (such as version selection) are still present but improved. Old scripts should run unaltered and no new commands are required.
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- [Managing Duplicate with userpath](#managing-duplicate-with-userpath)
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### Notable features of Capsules
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**Check out Carol Herre's [presentation on Capsules on SBGrid TV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baexe9R128A)**
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You can switch from the legacy SBGrid environment to the new with the _sbcap_ command. _sbcap on_ will enable the capsule environment.
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Version overrides may be defined in the ~/.sbgrid.conf file, which will be used each time the sbgrid.[sh|csh] file are sourced. A version override can also be instantiated by simply defining the APP_M prior to capsule execution.
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This can also be accomplished by simply setting BUSTER_X=20151214 in the shell or adding the line BUSTER_X=20151214 to your ~/.sbgrid.conf file as [described here](overrides). Note that case is important for the variable names. All SBGrid variable names are ALL CAPS.
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In some cases an executable may exist in multiple applications, i.e. the program _fft_ exists in CCP4 **and** Tigris. A default application is already defined based on what executable would be used in the legacy environment, but the user can choose to override this selectively or permanently.
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# Using SBGrid with MacOS 10.15+ 'Catalina', 'Big Sur'
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