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Install and execute softwares without root permission

This is really useful when running/testing softwares on machines you have no control of, e.g. clusters. Here I use install new apache-ant on Lighting3 (a redhat cluster) as an example:

  1. Lignthing3 has ant installed but it's an older version and java compiler does not like it...So I need to install a newer version.

  2. Apache-ant comes with binary version, which is awesome! All you need to do is to download it from here. I used wget to get the tar ball directly.

    wget http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/apache//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.tar.gz

  3. cd into the directory and there should be a folder called 'bin'. If it's not there, you downloaded the wrong thing...

  4. It is required to set ANT_HOME. You can do this every time you need to use ant in terminal or set it up in .cshrc so that no future manual work is needed.

    vi ~/.cshrc

    NOTE: you don't have to use vi. Use whatever you have to edit (create if it doesn't exit) .cshrc. File .cshrc has to reside in your home directory.

  5. In the opened .cshrc, add the following lines:

    setenv ANT_HOME /PATH/TO/WHERE/ANT/IS/apache-ant-1.9.4   
setenv PATH $ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH

    NOTE: the first line sets the ANT_HOME. The second line sets the software path upon logging in and open a new terminal remotely every time.

  6. Save and get back to your terminal window.

  7. Try which ant. The pathway should point towards your new apache-ant-1.9.4.

  8. If you type ant -version, it should return:

    Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on April 29 2014

  9. DONE!

FINAL NOTE:
Everything else is similar. Python requires a bit of more work and there are a couple of ways to do it. Briefly, one as below:

  1. after untar the source tarball, do:

    ./configure

  2. Make altinstall prefix=/PATH/TO/WHERE/I/WANT/IT exec-prefix=/PATH/TO/WHERE/I/WANT/IT

  3. The install python directory now should have folders bin, lib, and include.

    1. bin contains executable python2.X
    2. lib includes packages and modules
    3. include includes development headers

  4. You will have to link executable python2.X to python!

    ln -s python2.X python

  5. Set PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH in .cshrc. Below is what I put down:

    #python 2.7.6
setenv PYTHONHOME $tools/Python2.7.8
setenv PYTHONPATH $PYTHONHOME/bin
setenv PATH $PYTHONPATH/:$PATH
#python dev-headers and modules
setenv PYTHONPATH $PYTHONHOME/include/python2.7/:$PYTHONHOME/lib/python2.7/:$PYTHONPATH

    NOTE: you will have to include the path to headers and pacakges!

  6. Like ant, check python path and version to confirm.

  7. When installing python modules, double check module installation. But it can usually be carried out like follow:

    python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/WHERE/MY/PYTHONHOME/IS

    NOTE: you will have to include the path to headers and pacakges!

  8. Like ant, check python path and version to confirm.

  9. When installing python modules, double check module installation. But it can usually be carried out like follow:

    python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/WHERE/MY/PYTHONHOME/IS

    NOTE: you will have to include the path to headers and pacakges!

  10. Like ant, check python path and version to confirm.

  11. When installing python modules, double check module installation. But it can usually be carried out like follow:

    python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/WHERE/MY/PYTHONHOME/IS

    NOTE: you will have to include the path to headers and pacakges!

  12. Like ant, check python path and version to confirm.

  13. When installing python modules, double check module installation. But it can usually be carried out like follow:

    python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/WHERE/MY/PYTHONHOME/IS

    NOTE: you will have to include the path to headers and pacakges!

  14. Like ant, check python path and version to confirm.

  15. When installing python modules, double check module installation. But it can usually be carried out like follow:

    python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/WHERE/MY/PYTHONHOME/IS

    NOTE: you will have to include the path to headers and pacakges!

  16. Like ant, check python path and version to confirm.

  17. When installing python modules, double check module installation. But it can usually be carried out like follow:

    python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/WHERE/MY/PYTHONHOME/IS

    NOTE: you will have to include the path to headers and pacakges!

  18. Like ant, check python path and version to confirm.

  19. When installing python modules, double check module installation. But it can usually be carried out like follow:

    python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/WHERE/MY/PYTHONHOME/IS

    NOTE: you will have to include the path to headers and pacakges!

  20. Like ant, check python path and version to confirm.

  21. When installing python modules, double check module installation. But it can usually be carried out like follow:

    python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/WHERE/MY/PYTHONHOME/IS

    NOTE: you will have to include the path to headers and pacakges!

  22. Like ant, check python path and version to confirm.

  23. When installing python modules, double check module installation. But it can usually be carried out like follow:

    python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/WHERE/MY/PYTHONHOME/IS

  24. Modules should then be installed into Your/python/lib/site-packages.