Accessing the Software on UQAM servers

Using software modules

The access to different software packages, installed on the servers of the ESCER centre, is easily managed by users via the gnu environment modules (http://modules.sourceforge.net/). This package automatically adjusts the proper paths and variables in your environment, thus removing the necessity to do it "by hand".

The following commands of the "Modules" environment are used most frequently:

Show all modules available on the system:

   user@server$ module avail

Show currently loaded modules:

   user@server$ module list

Load a specific module:

   user@server$ module add  <modulename>
     or
   user@server$ module load <modulename>

Unload a specific module:

   user@server$ module rm <modulename>
     or
   user@server$ module unload <modulename>
 

PLEASE NOTE: To be completely sure you have unloaded a particular module it is best practice to logout of the system and re-login. That will guarantee the environment contains no references to a specific module.