[Tutorial]: Tested solution for install `mujoco_py` on linux server `without root`, Enjoy

[Josh00-Lu]

Recommendation: Ubuntu, Conda

## Create conda
conda create -n demo python=3.9 mesalib glew glfw -c conda-forge -y
conda activate demo

## Install mujoco dependency
USER_DIR=$USER
echo $USER_DIR
wget -c "https://mujoco.org/download/mujoco210-linux-x86_64.tar.gz"
mkdir -p /home/$USER_DIR/.mujoco
cp mujoco210-linux-x86_64.tar.gz /home/$USER_DIR/mujoco.tar.gz
rm mujoco210-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
mkdir -p /home/$USER_DIR/.mujoco
tar -zxvf /home/$USER_DIR/mujoco.tar.gz -C /home/$USER_DIR/.mujoco
echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/$USER_DIR/.mujoco/mujoco210/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export MUJOCO_PY_MUJOCO_PATH=/home/$USER_DIR/.mujoco/mujoco210" >> ~/.bashrc

# activate 
source ~/.bashrc
conda activate demo

#  install 
export CC="/usr/bin/gcc"
pip install "mujoco_py>=2.0"
pip install "cython<3"

# compile mujoco using gcc
python
import mujoco_py

Tested: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Good luck, enjoy.

[varungupta31]

@Josh00-Lu Thank you so much! Finally able to run mujoco.

<3

[shadielfares]

YOU ARE THE BEST HUMAN BEING TO EVER EXIST EVER, was in loops trying to get this done.

Worked on Ubuntu 24.04, with conda.

As it stands the current SpinningUp OpenAI docs are deprecated.

Thank you.