With Software Collections, it is possible to build and concurrently install multiple versions of the same RPM packages on a system. Software Collections have no impact on the system versions of the packages installed by the conventional RPM package manager.

General usage of the scl tool can be described using the following syntax:

 scl <action> [<collection1> <collection2> ...] <command> 

<action> is a script name to execute in a bash environment before the application itself takes in executed.

Step 1: Connect to server with X11 Forwarding enabled:

[username@yourmachine ~]$ ssh -X <gtaccount>@coc-ice.pace.gatech.edu
[gtaccount@coc-ice ~]$