Installing GNU parallel without root permission - linux

Question

EDIT 2
After trying to run parallel, I am getting the following on the terminal when I run both parallel and by the source /homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel/bin/parallel:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Note: the process is still running even after the above output.
EDIT 1:
My pwd is /homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424 and I ran
./configure --prefix=/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel (note- I created the folder parallel)
make
make install
However, after everything, now when I try to run parallel it says bash: parallel: command not found.
For reference, after I ran the 3 commands,it gave the following output for each of the three steps:
Step 1:
/configure:
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
Step 2:
make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
pod2man --release='20100424' --center='parallel' \
--section=1 ./parallel > ./parallel.1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424'
I am trying to install GNU's parallel on a server where I don't have access to sudo. I downloaded parallel , used SCP to transfer from local to server, and as per read me I have to do three steps to install:
Step3:
make install
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
test -z "/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel/bin"
/usr/bin/install -c parallel '/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel/bin'
test -z "/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel/share/man/man1" || /bin/mkdir -p "/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel/share/man/man1"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 parallel.1 '/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel/share/man/man1'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
make[1]: Entering directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424'
make[2]: Entering directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424'
Original question:
./configure
make
make install
I have successfully done the first 2 steps but in the 3rd step, that is make install, it gives the following error:
making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/bin"
/usr/bin/install -c parallel '/usr/local/bin'
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/parallel': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-binSCRIPTS] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/homedtic/gsantamaria/parallel-20100424/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
I think the main line is
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file /usr/local/bin/parallel': Permission denied
I wanted to change the instance of this path in all files that contain it to a path which can be accessed without sudo or root permissions. However, when I try grep, I find no files that contain it.
grep -r "/usr/local/bin/parallel" *
What can I do now? Or, how can I possibly install parallel without root permissions?
I tried checking this but still didn't help.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

./configure --prefix=<target>
This will make the installation in <target>/bin, <target>/lib etc.; just do the make install as usual.
Choose a <target> you have access to (something in ${HOME} if need be), and adjust your PATH to include <target>/bin (and, perhaps, MANPATH to include <target>/share/man so you get access to the man pages as well).

Answer 2

You might consider using linuxbrew (http://linuxbrew.sh)
brew install parallel

Answer 3

If you have conda, conda install -c conda-forge parallel is also a one-line solution.

Answer 4

The script
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/10seconds_install first tries an install requiring root; then a personal installation and if that fails too: a minimal installation.
It might just work for you out of the box, and if not, then it might serve as inspiration.

Answer 5

This did it for me, without root access:
(wget pi.dk/3 -qO - || curl pi.dk/3/) | bash
See this link.