How to install mujoco-py in a server without root privileges?

[luckeciano]

Hello,

I started to use Mujoco in a shared server (Ubuntu 18.04). I would like to install mujoco-py package there, but I don't have root privileged to install dependencies (e.g., I can't execute sudo apt install libosmesa6-dev libgl1-mesa-glx libglfw3)

Is there any way to install it without root access?

Thanks!

[PierreBoyeau]

Did you find a solution to this problem? I am facing the same issue.

[ezhang7423]

I solved this issue with conda.

conda install -c conda-forge glew
conda install -c conda-forge mesalib
conda install -c menpo glfw3

Then add your conda environment include to CPATH (put this in your .bashrc to make it permanent):

export CPATH=$CONDA_PREFIX/include

Finally, install patchelf with pip install patchelf

[luckeciano]

Thank you so much @ezhang7423! Really appreciate your help.

After installing these conda packages, I also had an issue to find lGL (cannot find -lGL). Mujoco-py README says to create a symlink using the libs in /usr, but I would need sudo privileges for that.

What I did was to copy the libGL.so.1 library to the lib directory on my conda env and then create a symlink there (ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so).

[qureshinomaan]

I solved this issue with conda.

conda install -c conda-forge glew
conda install -c conda-forge mesalib
conda install -c menpo glfw3

Then add your conda environment include to CPATH (put this in your .bashrc to make it permanent):

export CPATH=$CONDA_PREFIX/include

Finally, install patchelf with pip install patchelf

Note that this works for python 3.8

[RisingAuroras]

Thank you so much @ezhang7423! Really appreciate your help.

After installing these conda packages, I also had an issue to find lGL (cannot find -lGL). Mujoco-py README says to create a symlink using the libs in /usr, but I would need sudo privileges for that.

What I did was to copy the libGL.so.1 library to the lib directory on my conda env and then create a symlink there (ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so).

@luckeciano i had the same problem,have you solved it yet

[Kelym]

I solved this issue with conda.

conda install -c conda-forge glew
conda install -c conda-forge mesalib
conda install -c menpo glfw3

Then add your conda environment include to CPATH (put this in your .bashrc to make it permanent):

export CPATH=$CONDA_PREFIX/include

Finally, install patchelf with pip install patchelf

For people who installed these libraries to the non-base conda environment and have to batch script on a cluster machine: you might want to add this to your .bashrc. Note how CPATH comes after conda activate

conda activate BLABLA
export CPATH=$CONDA_PREFIX/include

[leonasting]

I solved this issue with conda.

conda install -c conda-forge glew
conda install -c conda-forge mesalib
conda install -c menpo glfw3

Then add your conda environment include to CPATH (put this in your .bashrc to make it permanent):

export CPATH=$CONDA_PREFIX/include

Finally, install patchelf with pip install patchelf

For people who installed these libraries to the non-base conda environment and have to batch script on a cluster machine: you might want to add this to your .bashrc. Note how CPATH comes after conda activate

conda activate BLABLA
export CPATH=$CONDA_PREFIX/include

Still not working for me.

[Epicato]

Thank you so much @ezhang7423! Really appreciate your help.

After installing these conda packages, I also had an issue to find lGL (cannot find -lGL). Mujoco-py README says to create a symlink using the libs in /usr, but I would need sudo privileges for that.

What I did was to copy the libGL.so.1 library to the lib directory on my conda env and then create a symlink there (ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so).

I had the same problem and it works for me.
Thanks a lot!