Bash script to install Singularity from GitHub releases

README.md

Install Singularity

This is a simple bash script to install Singularity.

Requirements

• Go >= 1.11
• build-essential
• libssl-dev
• uuid-dev
• libgpgme11-dev
• squashfs-tools
• libseccomp-dev
• pkg-config

install-singularity.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Check if we have 2 parameters (i.e., version AND path name)
if [ "$#" == 2 ]
    then
        export VERSION=$1 &&
        export PATHVERSION=$2
# If we have only one parameter (i.e., only version number)
elif [ "$#" == 1 ]
    then
        export VERSION=$1 &&
        export PATHVERSION=$1
# Else display some help text and exit
else
    echo "Usage:"
    echo "    ./install-release [version number] [optional: path name w/out 'v' (if different from version number)]"
    echo ""
    echo "Example: For 'https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases/download/v3.3.0-rc.1/singularity-3.3.0.tar.gz', use:"
    echo "             ./install-release.sh 3.3.0 3.3.0-rc.1"
    exit 0
fi

echo "Installing Singularity version $1"

# Get local dir and save in variable
DIR=$(pwd) && \

# Get Singularity relesae from GitHub
mkdir -p $DIR/src/github.com/sylabs && \
cd $DIR/src/github.com/sylabs && \
wget https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases/download/v${PATHVERSION}/singularity-${VERSION}.tar.gz && \
tar -xzf singularity-${VERSION}.tar.gz && \
cd ./singularity && \

# Configure make
./mconfig && \

# Make build
make -C ./builddir && \

# Install
sudo make -C ./builddir install
exit 0