Introduction

mcia-irods-client-install is a utility script for easy installation of iRODS iCommands. It also performs installation of mcia-irods-utils.

Prerequisites

mcia-irods-client-install is design to work on Linux.

Systems supported are EL9 and Ubuntu 18.04 (later Ubuntu distributions may also work)

You will need the following tools

• bash
• wget

On EL9, you will also need:

• cpio
• perl

On Ubuntu, you wil need instead:

• dpkg-dev

Install clients

Choose the place where you want to install iRODS iCommands (e.g. $HOME/local/irods) and run:

# clients location
prefix=$HOME/local/irods

# get the script
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mesocentre-mcia/mcia-irods-client-install/master/icommands-install.sh
chmod a+x icommands-install.sh

# run installation
./icommands-install.sh --prefix $prefix

Use

When installation is finished, you need to load iCommands into your shell environment:

# if running MacOs (with Zsh) you must run this first : 
#     autoload bashcompinit ; bashcompinit
source $prefix/share/irods/bashrc

As a MCIA user, you can also use a little helper script to configure your iRODS environment the first time you use iRODS clients on a particular Unix account:

source $prefix/share/irods/init.bash