From 44d5956a166c2585071f6e1115a58570c1beb3df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amber Lim <59936462+xamberl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:44:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update apptainer build environment variables

---
 README.md | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dfb15b4..13965db 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ containers and add the `cowsay` package from CRAN.
 
 To create the new container, set the following variables: 
 
-	$ export TMPDIR=$HOME
-	$ export APPTAINER_CACHE_DIR=$HOME
+	$ mkdir -p $HOME/tmp
+	$ export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
+	$ export APPTAINER_TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
+	$ export APPTAINER_CACHEDIR=$HOME/tmp
 
 And then run this command: