spack

Version:: 0.17.2
Category:: tools
Cluster:: Loki

Author / Distributor

Description

Spack is a package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS. It makes installing scientific software easy. With Spack, you can build a package with multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers, and all of these builds can coexist on the same machine.

Documentation

usage: spack [-hkV] [--color {always,never,auto}] COMMAND ...

A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions,
configurations, platforms, and compilers.

These are common spack commands:

query packages:
 list                  list and search available packages
 info                  get detailed information on a particular package
 find                  list and search installed packages

build packages:
 install               build and install packages
 uninstall             remove installed packages
 gc                    remove specs that are now no longer needed
 spec                  show what would be installed, given a spec

configuration:
 external              manage external packages in Spack configuration

environments:
 env                   manage virtual environments
 view                  project packages to a compact naming scheme on the filesystem.

create packages:
 create                create a new package file
 edit                  open package files in $EDITOR

system:
 arch                  print architecture information about this machine
 audit                 audit configuration files, packages, etc.
 compilers             list available compilers

user environment:
 load                  add package to the user environment
 module                generate/manage module files
 unload                remove package from the user environment

optional arguments:
 --color {always,never,auto}
                       when to colorize output (default: auto)
 -V, --version         show version number and exit
 -h, --help            show this help message and exit
 -k, --insecure        do not check ssl certificates when downloading

more help:
 spack help --all       list all commands and options
 spack help <command>   help on a specific command
 spack help --spec      help on the package specification syntax
 spack docs             open https://spack.rtfd.io/ in a browser

Examples/Usage

List available modules:
```
$ module avail spack
```
Load the spack module:
```
$ module load spack/0.17.2
```
Check the loaded modules:
```
$ module list
```
Unload the spack module:
```
$ module unload spack/0.17.2
```
list and search available packages:
```
$ spack --list
```
manage virtual environments:
```
$ spack --env
```

Installation

Source code is obtained from Spack