installation on read only directory :: problems

Hello,

I was asked to install RFdiffusion on our central cluster.

RFdiffsuion was installed in a python-3.10 virtual env
git clone https://github.com/RosettaCommons/RFdiffusion.git
pip install necessary requireements (see https://github.com/RosettaCommons/RFdiffusion/issues/95)
then pip install RFdiffusion

installation is done on a read only nfs drive.

so running run_inference.py from the compute node leads to some permission errors as by default it tries eg to cached IGSO3 to PREFIX/lib/python<PYTHON_VERSION>/site-packages/schedules which is RO

same may apply to models directory that are by default searched in PREFIX/lib/python<PYTHON_VERSION>/site-packages/models, ie impossible for user to put the wheight models in where exepected.

I understand that actual code is OK for a user that runs run_inference.py from his own space with RW rights ;-)

may I suggest that by default 'sensible' directories, eg config, models, schedules cache dir will be located and searched in $HOME directory.

regards

Start with run_inference.py and inspect how the config, models, and schedules paths are selected and cached. Reproduce the permission errors from a read-only Python environment, then verify that a user-writable location such as $HOME can be used without changing the installation. Confirm the inference workflow works on the compute node with the required weight models.