# \#software-installation

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## [HPC software management - how does your institution do it?](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/hpc-software-management-how-does-your-institution-do-it/2650)

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**Author:** [@andrew.monaghan](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/andrew.monaghan)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/hpc-software-management-how-does-your-institution-do-it/2650 "2023-11-21T11:07:32Z")

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Dear colleagues, CU Boulder Research Computing is in the planning stages of re-thinking how we manage and install software on our HPC cluster. To date, we have largely installed software packages “by hand” (as opposed t…

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## [How do you facilitate installation of R packages on your HPC/Cluster platform?](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/how-do-you-facilitate-installation-of-r-packages-on-your-hpc-cluster-platform/2927)

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**Author:** [@wwarr](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/wwarr)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 14, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/how-do-you-facilitate-installation-of-r-packages-on-your-hpc-cluster-platform/2927 "2023-09-14T22:18:10Z")

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A substantial portion of support requests on our HPC system come from researchers wanting to install packages in R and running into errors. One of my facilitators is an expert at finessing these installs, but it is eatin…

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## [Best practices for using Julia in a shared HPC environment](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/best-practices-for-using-julia-in-a-shared-hpc-environment/2151)

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**Author:** [@lllowe](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/lllowe)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 23, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/best-practices-for-using-julia-in-a-shared-hpc-environment/2151 "2022-06-23T23:14:03Z")

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I would like to create some instructions and documentation for using Julia on our HPC at the same level of detail as we have for Conda, specifically with regard to creating environments and installing distributed memory …

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## [Is there a way to install Julia's libraries into the central directory?](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-install-julias-libraries-into-the-central-directory/1886)

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**Author:** [@ktrn](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/ktrn)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 19, 2021, 4:22am UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-install-julias-libraries-into-the-central-directory/1886 "2021-05-19T04:22:12Z")

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We would like to install some most popular (or hard to install) Julia packages into a central location to avoid having multiple instances of the same package in user home directories. I could not find any official Julia …

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## [How can i install git LFS on a shared campus cluster running SL7?](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/how-can-i-install-git-lfs-on-a-shared-campus-cluster-running-sl7/858)

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**Author:** [@aculich](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/aculich)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 3, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/how-can-i-install-git-lfs-on-a-shared-campus-cluster-running-sl7/858 "2019-05-03T01:18:37Z")

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We are using our local campus cluster for research in our group. We have multiple students using it to run data analysis on top of shared datasets. During this we discovered issues. Despite the last major upgrade of the …