[Gate-users] GATE Docker container now available !

[Maxime Chauvin]

Dear Parisa,

which error do you get when trying to open it on your laptop ?

Kind regards,
  Maxime

> On 22 Oct 2018, at 14:34, Parisa Khateri <parisa.khateri at cern.ch> wrote:
> 
> Dear Maxime,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
> Actually, I tried to open the file with Root v6-08-06 installed on my laptop. But it also failed there. I thought the reason was the difference in the versions. Because the Root version in the container is 6.1/02. Do you think this could be reason?
> 
> I pulled the Gate container on an HPC. I cannot install those packages in there.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Parisa
> From: Maxime Chauvin [maxime.chauvin at inserm.fr]
> Sent: 19 October 2018 16:58
> To: Parisa Khateri
> Cc: João Marcos; gate-users at lists.opengatecollaboration.org
> Subject: Re: [Gate-users] GATE Docker container now available !
> 
> Dear Parisa,
> 
> ROOT needs some packages to be installed on the system if you want to use more than its libraries.
> You can install them using this command:
> yum -y install libX11-devel libXpm-devel libXft-devel libXext-devel
> 
> But keep in mind that the docker container is intended for computing, not for data analysis or visualisation.
> 
> Kind regards,
>   Maxime Chauvin
> 
>> On 19 Oct 2018, at 15:47, Parisa Khateri <parisa.khateri at cern.ch <mailto:parisa.khateri at cern.ch>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Maxime, dear Joao,
>> 
>> I tried to pull it on a HPC using shifter (instead of Docker). Then I ran a simple Gate simulation without an error but when I attempt to run root to open the simulation root file I get this error:
>> 
>> root: error while loading shared libraries: libSM.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> 
>> I checked and found this library doesn't exist in the /cern/root-install/lib/ directory. 
>> Could it be because of an inappropriate installation?
>> 
>> Thank you and kind regards,
>> Parisa
>> 
>> From: Gate-users [gate-users-bounces at lists.opengatecollaboration.org <mailto:gate-users-bounces at lists.opengatecollaboration.org>] on behalf of João Marcos [joao.marcos at coimbra.lip.pt <mailto:joao.marcos at coimbra.lip.pt>]
>> Sent: 17 September 2018 12:50
>> To: Maxime Chauvin
>> Cc: gate-users at lists.opengatecollaboration.org <mailto:gate-users at lists.opengatecollaboration.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Gate-users] GATE Docker container now available !
>> 
>> Dear Maxime,
>> 
>> I followed your instructions and I got my first Gate installation successfully.
>> This docker approach seems to be very useful.
>> 
>> Thank you very much.
>> Best regards,
>> João Marcos
>>  
>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:24:03 +0200, Maxime Chauvin
>>  wrote:
>> > Dear gate-users,
>> > 
>> > GATE is now available as a Docker container:
>> > https://hub.docker.com/r/opengatecollaboration/gate/ <https://hub.docker.com/r/opengatecollaboration/gate/>
>> > 
>> > 
>> > A Docker container is a bit like a small virtual machine that is created
>> > for one job and then destroyed. It is fast to deploy, very robust and
>> > perfect for production on a cluster.
>> > More information on Docker containers here:
>> > https://www.docker.com/resources/what-container <https://www.docker.com/resources/what-container>
>> > 
>> > 
>> > As a simple example, to launch GATE within a Docker container:
>> > install the Docker app https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop <https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop>
>> > 
>> > run in a terminal 'docker run -it opengatecollaboration/gate’
>> > run ‘Gate'
>> > Best regards,
>> >   Maxime Chauvin

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