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'''Note:''' Please see [[Modules]], which is now our preferred method of providing locally-built software to the Institute, as well as its various labs and centers.

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<tt>/opt/local</tt> is managed via a [[Stow]] system.

If you are looking for a specific piece of software you can list the directory <tt>/opt/local/stow</tt>.  Some software is linked in with the <tt>stow</tt> command directly into <tt>bin,lib,man,sbin</tt> directories in <tt>/opt/local</tt>.

This only pertains to [[RHEL | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)]].