How To Install singularity on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install singularity on Rocky Linux 8. singularity is Application and environment virtualization

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install singularity on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `singularity`

Singularity provides functionality to make portable containers that can be used across host environments.

We can use yum or dnf to install singularity on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install singularity.

Install singularity on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install singularity using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install singularity

Install singularity on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install singularity using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install singularity

How To Uninstall singularity on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the singularity package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove singularity

singularity Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/singularity
/etc/singularity
/etc/singularity/capability.json
/etc/singularity/cgroups/cgroups.toml
/etc/singularity/ecl.toml
/etc/singularity/global-pgp-public
/etc/singularity/network/00_bridge.conflist
/etc/singularity/network/10_ptp.conflist
/etc/singularity/network/20_ipvlan.conflist
/etc/singularity/network/30_macvlan.conflist
/etc/singularity/network/40_fakeroot.conflist
/etc/singularity/nvliblist.conf
/etc/singularity/remote.yaml
/etc/singularity/rocmliblist.conf
/etc/singularity/seccomp-profiles/default.json
/etc/singularity/singularity.conf
/usr/bin/run-singularity
/usr/bin/singularity
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/bfea2e6235e9b0eca765ddad7e63f31f359d1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/096f70fbc5404dc61aa75ea660d7ee73e2b5a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/4392c98bbc25955ee5354bb2ac4a1d4659a296
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/bee13ed4ebfd38326e0bb0d0d94607accf5c86
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/3328bdfa402cace2f71dd16ee0f6bdfd5f82a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/60f614d11639cb8781edc256f9739c1b5f1644
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/6ddd68e7efb06a594e8e6fb98e99de8dd86e44
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/03aa59f1e9bf83ec9e472dcc0178f6df264b06
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/65fac5516a94ec788afb6e7d59ef541ca2b691
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/8e5e11ee0e4e4791dc14177dfbdb62a589b178
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/601f506baea80ba8cedb6afbc5149be3934e39
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/0bc315d49073ade1aa49bc40e071e1cff9f42c
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/10197917cce3b7c4819e64d5d56416a1da00ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/a93c775ff783eec6d1e9791dd41553614b0468
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/0e6487c396af43eb3cb41680dbf1929058a2d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/024865a9688706064b6b6ae577aa168930bb9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/85447cdca596ed0047b6ca9a21dd9da29b53f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/546f9101074a3005ca36f9bf08a1d4a427f38a
/usr/libexec/singularity
/usr/libexec/singularity/bin/starter
/usr/libexec/singularity/bin/starter-suid
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/bandwidth
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/bridge
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/dhcp
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/firewall
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/flannel
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/host-device
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/host-local
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/ipvlan
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/loopback
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/macvlan
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/portmap
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/ptp
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/static
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/tuning
/usr/libexec/singularity/cni/vlan
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-build.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-cache-clean.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-cache-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-capability-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-capability-avail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-capability-drop.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-capability-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-capability.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-config-fakeroot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-config-global.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-delete.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-exec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-inspect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-instance-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-instance-start.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-instance-stop.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-instance.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-key-export.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-key-import.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-key-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-key-newpair.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-key-pull.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-key-push.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-key-remove.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-key-search.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-key.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-attach.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-delete.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-exec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-kill.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-mount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-pause.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-resume.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-run.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-start.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-state.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-umount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci-update.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-oci.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-overlay-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-overlay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-plugin-compile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-plugin-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-plugin-disable.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-plugin-enable.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-plugin-inspect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-plugin-install.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-plugin-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-plugin-uninstall.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-plugin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-pull.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-push.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote-add-keyserver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote-login.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote-logout.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote-remove-keyserver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote-remove.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote-status.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote-use.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-remote.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-run-help.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-run.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-search.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-shell.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sif-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sif-del.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sif-dump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sif-header.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sif-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sif-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sif-new.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sif-setprim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sif.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-sign.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-test.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-verify.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity-version.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/singularity.1.gz
/var/singularity
/var/singularity/mnt
/var/singularity/mnt/session

References

singularity website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install singularity on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.