rose-edit on RHEL9.x

[krisztiankohary]

Hello,
I was wondering if there is any advice how to go about setting up the rose-edit functionality for OS like RHEL9.x please?
I believe on Monsoon3 the 'trick' is that the rose-edit command invokes an SSH to another system with OS RHEL8?
Is there any other way to edit UM suites than rose-edit?
Many thanks
Krisztian

[tinyendian]

Hi Krisztian,

We use an Apptainer container with Ubuntu 18.04 (the last release that fully supports Python 2 and GUI libraries) to run the rose-edit GUI on our HPC, which works pretty well. The only GUI-based tool that doesn't work this way is the rosie GUI due to a bug in the one of the dependency packages. Happy to share the container recipe if you are interested.

[krisztiankohary]

Hi Wolfgang,

Yes, thank you, I would be very much interested in exploring this solution and learn about your container recipe.
(If it's easier please feel free to use my email at k.kohary@exeter.ac.uk.)
Many thanks
Krisztian

[tinyendian]

Hi Krisztian, just sent you an email, the recipe is probably too long to paste here. Happy to contribute it to the partnership container repo if anyone else is interested.

[jfrost-mo]

Longer term there is a pull request open to port rose edit to python3/gtk3, which should be easier to run.

metomi/rose#2808