>> Since IMP needs these
>> various libraries at runtime, then I don't see how having them
>> installed on the salilab interactive nodes helps. So I'm still
>> confused :-)
>
> As I said in my earlier mail, simply copy whichever libraries you need
> from the machine you build IMP on to a suitable location. The easiest
> place would be the same directory you install the IMP libraries in.
Sure, one can do that. But building the libraries from scratch is less effort and less consuming of my time (as opposed to CPU time). And having them bundled together in a place one can get with one cp command is even easier.