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This is largely a package manager problem. There is a way to run Homebrew (the package manager widely used on macOS) on Linux in a rootless mode, and it will install packages into your home directory no problem.

It’s a good trick to have in your back pocket if you’re given an unprivileged user on a compute node and want to make use of modern tools.

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