Dear Kruno,
Munehisa is working on Debian packages and Olivier on Ubuntu. But actually there is nothing in ALPS that needs administrator privileges. What operating system is your cluster running on? It is, for example, very easy to install ALPS on the Brutus cluster at ETH to which you should have access.
Matthias
On 29 Nov 2010, at 14:49, Krunoslav Prsa wrote:
Dear ALPS developers,
I have a simple question.
Are ALPS binary packages available for download/automatic update through standard Ubuntu/Debian repositories?
This appears to be the main argument of the clusters' system administrators against requests to install alps libraries and applications. They claim that it is not possible and that it involves extra work for them to update it manually (which they are not paid for). I also cannot seem to find it in packages.debian.org and packages.ubuntu.com. There are only some old binaries for Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake.
The manual installation of ALPS on a cluster without administration privileges is difficult. This needs to be said, although I understand that you are continuously doing steps to make it easier. I think that many end users would appreciate having a standardized way of installing and updating the packages through the repositories.
Please note that all this is written bona fide (from a happy ALPS user) and assuming, of course, that this issue is not already resolved.
Best wishes and thanks in advance, Kruno
Dr. Krunoslav Prsa, Postdoc Dynamics of strongly correlated materials Lab. for Solid State Physics Building/Office: HPF/E15.1 Schafmattstrasse 16, ETH Zürich Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Switzerland. Office phone: +41 44 633 22 96 Lab phone: +41 44 633 23 01 Mobile phone: +41 76 386 17 99