Installing SBGrid Software
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Instructions for installing the SBGrid software installation client can be found here --> Installation Instructions
The SBGrid software installation client is a GUI-based installer for the SBGrid software collection. The application allows for selected applications to be installed in the familiar SBGrid environment.
The client GUI is displays software 'Collections' on the right panel with folder icons under the 'Packages' heading. These Collections control the list of titles displayed in the center 'main' panel.
The first of two of these 'Collections' are shortcut meta-collections of the local machine. The first is the currently installed titles. The second icon, Updates, shows updates available from SBGrid. 'Pending' is a collection of pending installs and removals. Below these shortcuts are packages are grouped by primary scientific uses. Installation status is also indicated in theses collections.
Information about each title, including a description and links to documentation are shown in the upper right panel when that title is selected in the main pane.
Once packages have been configured for installation and/or removal by selecting their checkbox, clicking the 'Apply Changes' button will perform update the titles, adding pending installations and removing pending deletions.
Check the box to select Albula, then click the 'Apply Changes' button.
Notice the text turns green for pending installations. Pending updates are Orange.
Uncheck the box for Albula. Removals are shown in red text.
Click apply changes. Albula will be removed.
Default versions are installed by default for each application, though individual versions can be selected for each title. To do so, show the version pane by selecting "Show all package versions" from the "View" menu. Then, in the bottom right, select a desired version with the check boxes. Multiple versions of a given title can be installed and are indicated in the main panel.
Enable version panel
Check old/non-default versions
If you have a single version of an application installed, explicitly version selection in your environment will not be needed. In the case of multiple installed versions, the SBGrid Default version will be the version available at the terminal when installed, unless configured otherwise in ~/.sbgrid.conf.
If you have multiple non-default versions installed, the latest release will be version available in your shell. If you would like to have more than one version of a title installed, and prefer to use either an older release or the non-default version when a default version is installed, you must set this explicitly in your ~/.sbgrid.conf file as in the standard SBGrid environment.
Version priority in the shell
You can do open the configuration file by selecting the "Edit Configuration File" from the "SBGrid Installer" menu.
This will open a text editor with a sample configuration file, or your ~/.sbgrid.conf file if you have one already.
There is more info on how to do that here --> SBGrid version overrides
To run the software, you can click the "SBGrid Shell" button for an initialized bash shell.
You may also run the software from another terminal on your machine. To use the software at the terminal in bash, open a new terminal and run
source /programs/sbgrid.shrc
or in tcsh
source /programs/sbgrid.cshrc
For questions or problems, the Help menu will direct to the SBGrid help page. Or just email bugs@sbgrid.org. If relevant, please include a screenshot of the GUI if possible (command + shift + 4) and please include the ~/Library/Application Support/SBGrid/sbgrid.log file with your report.
Known issues
The application will fail if outbound port 873 and port 8080 are blocked by your institution or are otherwise not available.
In some cases the prompt for admin credentials fails to appear on activation. Be sure there is no prior SBGrid install on your machine at /programs or /opt/sbgrid.