Dependencies

EasyBuild has a couple of dependencies, some of them optional:

Required

• Python 2.4, or a more recent 2.x version
• environment-modules, version >= 3.2.6
• An rpm for this is available in the RHEL and SL repositories. An deb file has recently been accepted and available in debian-unstable for now.
• environment-modules requires Tcl to be installed (with header files and development libraries)

EasyBuild is written in Python, so a Python installation is indispensable.

EasyBuild not only generates module files to be used along with the software it installs, it also depends on the generated modules for some of its functionality. In practice, you need environment modules to make full use of EasyBuild's features.

Python modules

• (none)

Optional

Python modules

• GitPython, only needed if EasyBuild is hosted in a git repository or if you're using a git repository for EasyBuild specification files (.eb)
• pysvn, only needed if you're using an SVN repository for EasyBuild specification files (.eb)