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Installing iROS and iCommand on Ubuntu 22.04

Rahul Bhadani
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1 min readSep 26, 2024
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For my research, often I need to deal with storing, managing, and retrieving a large volume of data. For that, I use National Science Foundation sponsored Cyverse tool called Discovery Environment (DE) that provides services to host data. Cyverse uses iRODS, and iCommands that uses a variation of rsync called irsync for synchronizing data from local machine to Cyverse DE and vice-versa.

This article explains how to install iROS on Ubuntu 22.04 although iROS is officially not available for Ubuntu 22.04 as of Sept 2024.

Step 1

The first step is install libssl1.1 on ubuntu 22.04

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.1_1.1.0g-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libssl1.1_1.1.0g-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb

Step 2

Use iRODS bionic repos (i.e Ubuntu 20.04) to install iRODS

LSB_RELEASE="bionic" #Using bionic repos because focal is not available
wget -qO - https://packages.irods.org/irods-signing-key.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.irods.org/apt/ ${LSB_RELEASE} main" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/renci-irods.list
sudo apt-get update

then, type:


sudo apt install -y irods-icommands

That’s all.

Once you successfully install iRODS, you can initialize your command by following instructions from https://learning.cyverse.org/ds/icommands/#icommands-installation-for-linux under section iCommands First-time Configuration .

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Rahul Bhadani
Rahul Bhadani

Written by Rahul Bhadani

Asst. Professor, @UAH | @uarizona PhD, ECE | Intelligent Transportation & Quantum Science Researcher | Donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/rahulbhadani

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