I am trying to install and configure Globus Connect Personal for Linux (i have a CentOS 8), following this tutorial. However, when I try to set up Globus connect personal by running ./globusconnectpersonal -start i get this error
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Python path configuration:
PYTHONHOME = (not set)
PYTHONPATH = (not set)
program name = 'gc.py'
isolated = 0
environment = 1
user site = 1
import site = 1
sys._base_executable = ''
sys.base_prefix = '/tmp/build/80754af9/python_1599203911753/_h_env_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placeho'
sys.base_exec_prefix = '/tmp/build/80754af9/python_1599203911753/_h_env_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_placeho'
sys.executable = ''
sys.prefix = '/tmp/build/80754af9/python_1599203911753/_h_env_placehold_
Subprocess pid 1722896 exited, rc=1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./gc-ctrl.py", line 369, in <module>
start(debug=False)
File "./gc-ctrl.py", line 191, in start
send2clients(fds[2:], mesg.encode('utf-8'))
AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'
does anybody know what this could mean?
I think there needs to be PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH. I created a conda environment with just the correct version of python in it. Then I ran ./globusconnectpersonal inside the conda environment.
Using a conda environment also works for the non-GUI form of globus.
I have not tried setting the paths manually.