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Jim Maas
Jim Maas

Reputation: 1729

can not get singularity to compile, failed to get package version

Ubuntu 20.04, downloaded singularity 3.7.3.tar.gz, sha256 matches, unzipped it and followed instructions but keep getting Failed to get package version. Abort.

Any quick suggestions what I'm missing. I installed GO using a snap, and when I check the version I get

$ go version go version go1.16.3 linux/amd64 What am I missing. Thx, J.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 757

Answers (1)

Jim Maas
Jim Maas

Reputation: 1729

I found a bug / problem!

In the file /singularity/mconfig

is some code to check the version?

# if test -z "${package_version}" ; then
#   echo "Failed to get package version. Abort."
#   exit 1
# fi

I can't tell why this doesn't work because the file it is looking for is present. If I comment out this code, the config, compile and install work seamlessly and do produce the correct version information! The syslabs.io people make it incredibly difficult to contact them to suggest a bug.

V2, got it to work, this is new to me but the quirk was I was downloading the .tar.gz into a directory that was already within a git repo. This affects where mconfig looks for the "VERSION" file and causes an error. Created a new directory outside any git repo's, dowloaded, untarred and mconfig,make, and make install all worked fine. Strange thae where it looks for VERSION file is changed?

Upvotes: 2

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