[GAP Forum] Multi-user Installation on Linux

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 08:02:27AM +0000, Christopher Jefferson wrote:
> Here is what I do:
> 
> 1) Untar the gap installation to a directory like /usr/local/lib/gap4r8
> 
> 2) Build GAP and all packages in this directory (GAP and it’s packages
> does not like being moved), exactly as normal.
> 
> 3) Either symlink, or copy, bin/gap.sh into a directory in the user’s path like /usr/local/bin

4) Make sure that all the files in /usr/local/lib/gap4r8 have proper
permissions so that all the users can read them.

You also need to make some directory writeable to all users.
pkg/AtlasRep/datagens
and
pkg/AtlasRep/dataword

if I remember correctlty.

5) Make sure external binaries used by some GAP packages are available.
(gp at least).

Cheers,
Bill.