Singularity Installation

Firstly, the user needs to install the Singularity software, the following steps use the official documentaton: “https://sylabs.io/guides/3.5/user-guide/quick_start.html”.

Note: Some installations require the user to have sudo privileges. If you do not have any, please ask your system administrator to install them for you.

Install the Required Packages

• You need to use the following 2 commands to install the dependency packages:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install -y \
  build-essential \
  libssl-dev \
  uuid-dev \
  libgpgme11-dev \
  squashfs-tools \
  libseccomp-dev \
  wget \
  pkg-config \
  git \
  cryptsetup
  

Install Go

• This is used by the Singularity container:

  export VERSION=1.13 OS=linux ARCH=amd64
  wget https://dl.google.com/go/go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
  sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzvf go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
  rm go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
  sudo ln -s /usr/local/go/bin/go /usr/local/bin/go
  

• You can test your download by typing:

  go help
  

Download Singularity From a Release

• The following commands are used to download the code:

  export VERSION=3.5.2 && wget  https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases/download/v${VERSION}/singularity-${VERSION}.tar.gz
  tar -xzf singularity-${VERSION}.tar.gz
  

Compile the Singularity Source Code

• The code is compiled using the following command:

  cd singularity
  ./mconfig
  make -C builddir
  sudo make -C builddir install
  

• You can test the installation by typing:

  singularity h