Data Respositories

iRODS

The Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) is open source data management software used by research, commercial, and governmental organizations worldwide. See the official documentation site for more information.

Installing the iCommands package

The iCommands package is hosted on the iRods Consortium Packages website and the instructions below are based on this website. These instructions should work on other flavour Linux distributions too, but we focus on the ones mainly used on campus.

UbuntuRockySUSE

sudo apt -y install wget
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 -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/renci-irods.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt -y install irods-icommands

sudo dnf -y install wget
sudo rpm --import https://packages.irods.org/irods-signing-key.asc
wget -qO - https://packages.irods.org/renci-irods.yum.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/renci-irods.yum.repo
sudo dnf -y install irods-icommands

sudo rpm --import https://packages.irods.org/irods-signing-key.asc
wget -qO - https://packages.irods.org/renci-irods.zypp.repo | sudo tee /etc/zypp/repos.d/renci-irods.zypp.repo
sudo zypper -y install irods-icommands

Configuring the iCommands environment

Execute the following command on your Linux machine:

# Create the irods directory in your home directory, if it does not already exist:
[ -e ~/.irods/ ] || mkdir -p ~/.irods/
cat >  ~/.irods/irods_environment.json <<-EOF
{
    "irods_default_resource": "ernResc",
    "irods_host": "irods01.ern.ufs.ac.za",
    "irods_port": 1247,
    "irods_zone_name": "ernZone",
    "irods_authentication_scheme": "pam_password"
}
EOF

Connect to the Catalog

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