Installing Globus on Ubuntu

Installing Globus on Ubuntu

For installing Globus Toolkit nothing more easy than download the corresponding package for your Ubuntu version:

Precise:

wget http://www.globus.org/ftppub/gt5/5.2/5.2.3/installers/repo/globus-repository-5.2-stable-precise_0.0.3_all.deb sudo dpkg -i globus-repository-5.2-stable-precise_0.0.3_all.deb

Quantal:

wget http://www.globus.org/ftppub/gt5/5.2/5.2.3/installers/repo/globus-repository-5.2-stable-quantal_0.0.3_all.deb sudo dpkg -i globus-repository-5.2-stable-quantal_0.0.3_all.deb

#adduser globus

#passwd <any_password>

make globus directory. Globus toolkit will be  installed in this directory.

#mkdir /usr/local/globus-5.2.2

Note: take wharever version you are downloading.

switch to globus user and go to this directory.

# chown globus:globus /usr/local/globus-5.2.2

now run this command as globus user. 

# ./configure --prefix=<your_directory>

run make command and then install.

# make

#make install

note: make command will take a lot of command.

No version was provided for Raring or Saucy.

Update the repositories: sudo apt-get update
Then install your desired package, using sudo apt-get install package being package any of these:
globus-gridftp GridFTP client and server tools
globus-gram5 GRAM5 client and server tools
globus-gsi Globus Security Infrastructure tools for managing certificates and proxies
globus-data-management-server Server tools for deploying a GridFTP server.
globus-data-management-client Client Tools for data management, including the GridFTP client programs and globus-url-copy
globus-data-management-sdk Development headers and documentation for writing applications using the GridFTP APIs.
globus-resource-management-server Server tools for deploying a GRAM5 resource manager
globus-resource-management-client Client tools for resource management, including the globusrun tool, and the globus-job-* tools.
globus-resource-management-sdk Development headers and documentation for writing applications using the GRAM5 APIs.
Source:
http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/docs/5.2/5.2.3/admin/install/#install-bininst