Hola Oscar, installing scientific software as root is a non recommended practice that's why easybuild triggers an error and asks you not to do it. For testing you can use your standard account. What many easybuild users do once they use easybuild in production is having a dedicated user account in the cluster which is used to manage the easybuild installations.
The error about "Name or service not known" coming from the urllib2 library I guess it's a problem with your dns. The bootstrap script will try to connect to the internet and download all the required software to install easybuild. I guess the machine where you are executing easybuild cannot resolve some of the domains where the bootstrap script is trying to connect to. I would review your dns and network configuration. saludos, Pablo. 2015-10-21 16:03 GMT+02:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > Please let me introduce myself: > > My name is Oscar Au-Alvarez. I am the admin of the recently installed HPC > at > the University of Oriente (eastern Cuba). I heard of EasyBuild from Dieter > Roefs who came to my university in a working visitit within VLIRUOS. With > Dieter I realized that EasyBuild is what I need as I have had many > headaches > installing, compiling some programs. So I tried to install EasyBuild but > have > had problems with the installation. > > I have 2 questions: > > 1- I tried to install EasyBuld bootstrapping it as root, and I got the > following message: " Don't run the EasyBuild bootstrap script as root, > since > stage 2 (installing EasyBuild with EasyBuild) will fail"l. > My question is: Why root cannot bootstrap EasyBuild? > > 2-I tried to install EasyBuild as non-root user with "python > bootstrap_eb.py > $HOME/.local", and it starts STAGE 0 but aborts with the following error > message: "urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not > known>" > My question: How do I solve this? > > > -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer sciCORE, University of Basel Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB Email: [email protected] Phone: +41 61 267 21 80 http://scicore.unibas.ch
