I had an opportunity to build coot executable on a fresh ubuntu box. It compiles fine after you install few dependencies but I noticed the following:
1) it seems that coot won't work without CCP4. It won't load mtz files - complained that the map file wasn't proper format. 2) Even after I installed CCP4, it wants me to have ccp4 configuration script sourced or it won't refine even amino acids in real space. I was under impression that in the past standard amino acids were accessible even if ccp4 monomer libraries cannot be reached. Maybe it changed. None of this is a big deal, just surprising. Obviously, having coot installed without ccp4 is a bit unusual, although having a standalone coot (say, for teaching purposes on a flash drive) is not completely unimaginable. Cheers, Ed. --- Coot verendus est
