# Mate Desktop in a Singularity container?

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**Created:** [January 29, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/mate-desktop-in-a-singularity-container/696 "2020-01-29T16:38:31Z")\
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Do you run GridEngine by any chance? `module` is a function in an `/etc/profile.d` file. Some folks have had to add `. ~/.bashrc` (load a users .bashrc)

Along with `script_wrapper` we also provide header. that is a header.

```yaml
  header: | 
    #!/bin/bash
    . ~/.bashrc

```

You can see this topic for similar issue.

> [@Module not found launching Desktop](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/module-not-found-launching-desktop/809/19):
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> Boston University uses SGE and we also ran into this problem. Our script\_wrapper begins with: set +o posix This tells /bin/sh to behave like /bin/bash and allows process substitution to work. It also looks like the module command isn’t defined. To deal with that you might also need to add: . /etc/bashrc What we actually do is add this: . ~/.bashrc which sources /etc/bashrc but also brings in some user settings (umask in particular). hope this helps. –Mike Dugan

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