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Apptainer Official PPA for Ubuntu Is Now Available!

Apptainer Official PPA for Ubuntu Is Now Available!
February 2, 2023

Rocky Linux users have long benefited from the availability of Apptainer on the EPEL repository. Apptainer, formerly known as Singularity, is widely used in the HPC community. Ubuntu is the one another major distribution for Apptainer users. Now there is great news for Ubuntu and Windows/WSL2/Ubuntu Apptainer users! Apptainer pre-built binaries are now available on the PPA for Ubuntu repository. Now you can install Apptainer using apt package manager. This makes it easy to install and update Apptainer on Ubuntu and Windows/WSL2/Ubuntu. This PPA supports 22.04 (jammy) and 20.04 (focal) on both amd64 and arm64 architectures.

A special thank you goes to Dave Dykstra at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for supporting and mentoring this activity.

Install Apptainer on Ubuntu

Default Installation

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:apptainer/ppa
sudo apt install -y apptainer

Update Default Installation

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --only-upgrade -y apptainer

Setuid Installation

In case you don’t have the user namespace enabled in the kernel:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:apptainer/ppa
sudo apt install -y apptainer-suid

Update Setuid Installation

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --only-upgrade -y apptainer-suid

Install Apptainer on Windows/WSL2/Ubuntu

Open Windows Terminal (or Windows Powershell) as administrator. Install WSL2.

wsl –-install

Reboot your system. 

shutdown.exe /r

After the system is rebooted, it automatically downloads and installs the latest version of Ubuntu.

If it doesn’t automatically install Ubuntu, open the Windows Terminal (or Windows Powershell) as administrator again, and manually install the latest Ubuntu version.

wsl –-install -d Ubuntu

After successfully installing Ubuntu, let’s install Apptainer. Execute the following commands on the Ubuntu terminal on Windows 10 / Windows 11.

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:apptainer/ppasudo apt install -y apptainer

Install Apptainer on Rocky Linux

It’s easy to install and update Apptainer on Rocky Linux.

Default Installation

sudo dnf install -y epel-releasesudo dnf install -y apptainer

Update Default Installation

sudo dnf check-updatesudo dnf update -y apptainer

Setuid Installation

In case you don’t have the user namespace enabled in the kernel:

sudo dnf install -y epel-releasesudo dnf install -y apptainer-suid

Update Setuid Installation

sudo dnf check-updatesudo dnf update -y apptainer-suid

Apptainer Applications You May Want to Try

Now you are ready to do great things! The following links are great ways to get started on your journey. Have fun with Apptainer! 😃

https://ciq.com/blog/running-camry-impact-model-in-ls-dyna-format-using-openradioss-and-apptainer/

https://develop.openfoam.com/Development/openfoam/-/wikis/precompiled/apptainer

References

Official PPA for Apptainer 

https://launchpad.net/~apptainer/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Official Apptainer Installation Guide

https://apptainer.org/docs/admin/main/installation.html#install-debian-ubuntu-packages

Installation Guide for WSL2/Ubuntu on Windows 10/11 from Canonical

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-wsl2-on-windows-11-with-gui-support#1-overview

OpenFOAM

https://www.openfoam.com/

OpenRadioss

https://www.openradioss.org/

Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute by Gregory M. Kurtzer, Vanessa Sochat, Michael W. Bauer

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177459

New Linux Foundation Project Accelerates Collaboration on Container Systems Between Enterprise and High-Performance Computing Environments

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/new-linux-foundation-project-accelerates-collaboration-on-container-systems-between-enterprise-and-high-performance-computing-environments

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