Docker Usage
A pre-built version of GAMBIT is available as a Docker image which can be downloaded and run locally. This is useful for trying out GAMBIT and following the examples on this site without the need to build GAMBIT from source.
The current Docker image is based on GAMBIT v1.1.3, which is outdated and will not provide the latest features.
The Docker engine requires administrator privileges in order to be activated. Therefore its use is not recommended on shared clusters.
Setting up the Docker image
Install the Docker Engine
The Docker Engine is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Follow Docker’s installation guide to install it on your system.
Download the Docker image
The Docker image download is around 6GB. To download the Docker image, from the command line run:
docker pull gambitbsm/gambit-pippi
Then to run the Docker container run:
docker run -it gambitbsm/gambit-pippi
This will give you a bash shell with GAMBIT pre-built and ready to run.
Note that on Linux, it may be necessary to create docker group and add users to it in order to use Docker commands. For example:
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER