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## EESSI via `cvmfsexec`
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When you do not have administrator rights, nor access to `singularity`/`apptainer`, there is still another option that
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may work for you: [`cvmfsexec`](https://github.com/cvmfs/cvmfsexec) allows you to mount cvmfs repositories
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may work for you: [`cvmfsexec`](https://github.com/cvmfs/cvmfsexec) allows you to mount CernVM-FS repositories
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Whether this approach will work is very dependent on the specific system you have access to. If this approach is your
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Once inside this directory, `cvmfsexec` does still require an internet connection and some tools from your system that
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may not be available by default (but are quite common): `curl`, `rpm2cpio`, and `cpio`. If those are available then the
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see if the steps below work for you:
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see if the steps below work for you.
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First we gather the files that `cvmfsexec` requires (this will also tell you if your OS is supported),
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by running the `makedist` script:
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# First we gather the files that cvmfsexec requires (this will also tell you if your OS is supported)
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If that worked, we can try to start `cvmfsexec` as follows,
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and see if that result in a shell environment in which EESSI is available:
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# Then we try to start cvmfsexec and see what happens
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./cvmfsexec cvmfs-config.cern.ch software.eessi.io -- bash
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Here we also mount the `cvmfs-config.cern.ch` repository, which provides the necessary configuration files to CernVM-FS to be aware of EESSI.
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To start using EESSI, see [Using EESSI](usage.md).

docs/introduction.md

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In 2023, the first production release of EESSI under the EESSI production repository
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[`software.eessi.io`](https://www.eessi.io/docs/repositories/software.eessi.io/) was made.
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In 2024, EESSI won the HPCwire Reader's Choice Award at SC24.
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In 2024, EESSI [won the HPCwire Reader's Choice Award at Supercomputing 2024](https://www.eessi.io/docs/blog/2024/11/18/hpcwire-readers-choice-awards-2024-for-eessi/).
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EESSI is also a critical component of the
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[EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP)](https://my-eurohpc.eu/), underpinning the Federated Software Catalogue. The first

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