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Re: Strategies for setting up scientific packages?
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Felix Engel <[log in to unmask]>
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Felix Engel <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 28 May 2009 08:49:27 +0200
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Hi,

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:09:57PM -0700, Matt Harrington wrote:
> This isn't specifically a Scientific Linux question, but I suspect
> many of the list's readers are in the same boat as me.  We have about
> 30 scientific packages, of which about 20 are command-line only and
> about 10 are GUI applications.  Rather than have massive, slow,  and
> unmaintainable .cshrc/.bashrc files, people use an application called
> "prepare" to set up each app as necessary. 

We use the package environment-modules for this. It is available from
the EPEL repositories. Its homepage is http://modules.sourceforge.net/.

Regards,
   Felix

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