Installing Singularity

Source: sylabs.io

Terminal Install:

Pre-requisites:

On Ubuntu or Debian install the following dependencies:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y \
    build-essential \
    uuid-dev \
    libgpgme-dev \
    squashfs-tools \
    libseccomp-dev \
    wget \
    pkg-config \
    git \
    cryptsetup-bin

Install Go:

export VERSION=1.5.12 OS=linux ARCH=amd64 && \
    wget https://dl.google.com/go/go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz && \
    sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzvf go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz && \
    rm go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz

echo 'export GOPATH=${HOME}/go' >> ~/.bashrc && \
    echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:${PATH}:${GOPATH}/bin' >> ~/.bashrc && \
    source ~/.bashrc

Install Singularity:

export VERSION=3.6.3 && # adjust this as necessary \
    wget https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases/download/v${VERSION}/singularity-${VERSION}.tar.gz && \
    tar -xzf singularity-${VERSION}.tar.gz && \
    cd singularity

then check out code from git:

git clone https://github.com/sylabs/singularity.git && \
    cd singularity && \
    git checkout v3.6.3

Now compile Singularity:

./mconfig && \
    make -C ./builddir && \
    sudo make -C ./builddir install