STANDALONE IMAGER version

This page is intended for installation on LINUX or WINDOWS operating systems.

REQUIREMENTS:

You must have APPTAINER (with the “setuid/suid” option) on the host you want to run it. If needed see APPTAINER installation below

Install standalone IMAGER from an APPTAINER image:

Retrieve the last IMAGER apptainer image or the version you want

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Run IMAGER in APPTAINER (how to):

1) give access to the /root1, /root2 or whatever virtual disks directory structure you want inside APPTAINER (otherwise it will just access your Home tree or so)

export APPTAINER_BINDPATH="/root1,/root2,/root3"

Warning: if $HOME/.gag is a link, APPTAINER_BINDPATH must include the virtual disk path to its mount point

2) Launch APPTAINER container with the command :

apptainer exec /path/image-version.simg /bin/sh

3) Run IMAGER program within the APPTAINER container with the command:

imager

APPTAINER installation

1) APPTAINER For Linux systems:

This typically is like (for Debian/Ubuntu)

$ wget https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases/download/v1.1.3/apptainer_1.1.3_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get install -y ./apptainer_1.1.3_amd64.deb
$ wget https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases/download/v1.1.3/apptainer-suid_1.1.3_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ./apptainer-suid_1.1.3_amd64.deb

For other variants (REDHat, etc..) see the details on the Web site

2) APPTAINER For WindowS

see https://apptainer.org/docs/admin/main/installation.html

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