How to configure Ivy cache directory per-user or system-wide?

Question

I am using SBT as my build tool for building a Scala project.

My problem is, I can\'t configure SBT to download dependencies to my user home directory. Therefore I a

Answer 1

You can simply add an environment variable to your sbt launch shell script:

java -Dsbt.ivy.home=/tmp/.ivy2/ ...

See Library Management in the official documentation.