Setting up spack manager

Setting up spack-manager is relatively simple.

The first step is to pick a location where you'd like to keep spack-manager. Since there will be a lot of building and installing you should pick a location with a reasonable amount of storage.

Once you know where it will be stored simply recursively clone spack-manager:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/psakievich/spack-manager

You will also need to set the SPACK_MANAGER environment variable so it points to this directory:

export SPACK_MANAGER=$(pwd)/spack-manager

Now source the start script to load all the Spack-Manager functions into your shell:

source $SPACK_MANAGER/start.sh

To start using Spack based features you need to run

spack-start

or you can use one of our quick-commands which will run spack-start for you. That's it! Now you can start using Spack-Manager.

# Suggested additions to bashrc
export SPACK_MANAGER=/path/to/your/install
source ${SPACK_MANAGER}/start.sh

Once you have those set you can just open a new shell and type spack-start to activate spack-manager. Another very useful function is quick-activate which will run spack-start and activate an environment for you at the same time.