Installing Software - Computing in Statistics at Berkeley

Requesting software installation by the SCF¶

In general, SCF staff are happy to install software at the system level when that software could be of interest to multiple users. Please email your request, including links/instructions for installing the software.

For specialized software, we can help you install software in your home directory or a project directory.

Installing software on the SCF¶

Tips for installing software¶

Note that any installation instructions that require you to use apt-get or sudo won’t work because they require administrative privileges.
However, in many cases, one can install software in your home directory by making sure the installation process will only create files in your home directory. SCF staff are available to help.
Since home and scratch directories are accessible from all SCF machines, you only need to install the software of interest once while on any SCF Linux machine, and it will be available on all the machines.

Using the Conda (or Mamba) package installer¶

Conda is a general package manager. While it is best known for installing Python packages, you can also use it to install other software, including executables with complicated dependencies that would otherwise need to be installed using admin privileges.