Hi everyone, Gordon was referring to me, but I already know about the
gap -l “path” option, so this solves Gordon’s question. Cheers, John. > On 17 Oct 2017, at 7:33 PM, Gordon Royle <gordon.ro...@uwa.edu.au> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply, and Bill’s addendum. > > The only problem with that set up that I can foresee is that one of the users > is a package developer and constantly wants to tinker with, update and then > re-load the latest version of the package. > > Is there a mechanism that allows each individual to have local versions of > the packages but a common core? > > Or do we just go for most users having the common version and those with > additional needs running a completely separate installation? > > > > > >> On 17 Oct 2017, at 4:02 pm, Christopher Jefferson <ca...@st-andrews.ac.uk> >> wrote: >> >> Here is what I do: >> >> 1) Untar the gap installation to a directory like /usr/local/lib/gap4r8 >> >> 2) Build GAP and all packages in this directory (GAP and it’s packages does >> not like being moved), exactly as normal. >> >> 3) Either symlink, or copy, bin/gap.sh into a directory in the user’s path >> like /usr/local/bin >> >> GAP should then run happily for any user who runs it. >> >> The only problems arise if you want to try to separate different parts of >> GAP into different directories, which it currently doesn’t support well. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >>> On Oct 17, 2017, at 1:21 AM, Gordon Royle <gordon.ro...@uwa.edu.au> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I want to install the latest GAP on a Linux (RHEL) machine in such a way >>> that it is accessible to multiple users. (I have root permissions on that >>> machine.) >>> >>> I cannot seem to find instructions for this particular variant of the >>> installation process - the kinds of things I need to know are >>> >>> - do I create a GAP directory in the shared areas (i.e. >>> /usr/local/lib/gap4r8 or similar) >>> - do I install all the packages in this shared area, or does each user >>> maintain their own package >>> - would it be easier to just ask all users to install GAP for themselves >>> (well, this would obviously be easier for me!) >>> >>> (The link on the main installation page that claims to be installation >>> documentation actually downloads a file called INSTALL.dms which I cannot >>> open ) >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Gordon >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Forum mailing list >>> Forum@mail.gap-system.org >>> http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum >> > > _______________________________________________ > Forum mailing list > Forum@mail.gap-system.org > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
