Hi John, Not sure if anyone ever got round to replying but removing software is a long-standing discussion/debate within EasyBuild.
TLDR; Deleting .local/easybuild and starting again would probably be best practice right now. The issue is that we are usually not just installing software for ourselves but for others to use as well, and deleting something may unintentionally break something for someone else. There are a couple of open PRs related to this (https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2783 and https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2784 and there may be more) but it is very difficult to figure out the right solution for this case. Because there is no clear path, it leaves us in limbo. Alan On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 12:13, John Hearns <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I installed the latest version of Easybuild yesterday under $HOME/.local then installed the Dev version for the 2020a sprint All OK so far. Then I ran eb HPL-2.3-foss-2020a.eb --robot This installed lots of software and modules under .local I prefer to have software installed under /software (or something like that) My question: is there a method to remove Easybuild packages and module files? I just deleted all of .local/easybuild then started again with $EASYBUILD_PREFIX=/software -- Dr. Alan O'Cais E-CAM Software Manager Juelich Supercomputing Centre Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich, Germany Phone: +49 2461 61 5213 Fax: +49 2461 61 6656 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Volker Rieke Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
