Dear all, An alternative which does not require to call GAP with an option is to use the `.gap` directory. If you will have a package `pkgname` in the directory
~/.gap/pkg/pkgname then GAP will load the version of the package from there. If you will start GAP with -r command line option, it will ignore the content of .gap directory (which may also have other files, e.g. gap.ini and gaprc). Please see ?GAPInfo.UserGapRoot for further details. Best wishes Alexander > On 17 Oct 2017, at 12:45, John Bamberg <john.bamb...@uwa.edu.au> wrote: > > 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 -- Dr. Alexander Konovalov, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra (CIRCA) School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews Software Sustainability Institute Fellow https://alexk.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk -- The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland:No.SC013532 _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
