dockira: a Docker-based solution to work with kira on MacOS

The exhausted individual's humble attempt at (unreasonably) trying to run kira on the newer Mac(O)s.

amd64 image (preferred)

First, confirm the docker engine is running. Open an integrated terminal, and enter the following command to build an amd64 image, since ginac has potential issues with aarch64: docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 -t dockira:amd64 ., where the name of the image is dockira:amd64.

Alternatively, pull the image from dockerhub: docker pull sudeepan/dockira:amd64. If you use this, change the name of the image from dockira:amd64 to sudeepan/dockira:amd64 in the following steps.

Run the image

Running docker run -i dockira:amd64 shall generate a new docker container, rename it to kira as follows: docker rename <container-name> kira

Put the contents of script.txt in .zshrc

Now simply run dkira <jobfile> from the directory containing the kira job-file, this shall produce the kira results sub-directory as output.