trying to install DASH on cluster

[sli259]

I am new to the DASH and want to install this on the cluster I am using. However it failed when I used cmake, with the following output.

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Could not find the following Boost libraries:

      boost_python

No Boost libraries were found. You may need to set BOOST_LIBRARYDIR to the
directory containing Boost libraries or BOOST_ROOT to the location of
Boost.

I did find the boost path on the cluster, however there was no libraries in it. Is this something I should install before I can install DASH?

[mquevill]

DASH requires that you have Boost installed with the Python package available before you can build it from source. (On a cluster, you may have to use module load boost or something for these files to show up.) Typically, these files are located within /usr/lib/, /usr/lib64/, or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/. Within these directories, there should be many .so files that start with "libboost_". Namely, DASH is looking for libboost_python.so.

If these libraries have been installed somewhere else, then you will need to pass in -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=/path/to/libboost_*.so. If you do not know this location, you can try using Linux's find command or ask your cluster administrators for more information about your Boost installation.