On Dec 19, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Eric Liu wrote:
Hi All
Hi Eric:
I am a new user for OS X system and this question may sound naive. I
followed the instruction on website Crystallography on OS X,
installed X11,
Xcode and fink on my OS X 10.5.5, but still could not install ccp4
with
fink. Here is the err message" no package found for specification
"ccp4""
after I typed the command " fink -b install ccp4"
As Graeme mentioned, you can just install ccp4's own pre-compiled
binaries.
However, if you want to do it as above, you need to activate the
"unstable" branch of
fink, then issue the command "fink selfupdate-rsync" (or selfupdate-
cvs) and then you
will see it. If you want to take advantage of the fink -b option,
there are a couple more
things you need to do, also described on that website (cf http://tinyurl.com/fink-precompiled
).
Finally, to get all the imosflm components to work, you can install a
placeholder package
called ("imosflm") that in reality installs the various itck,itk add-
ons. Coot and cctbx are also
separate packages, and I am working on a few others.
Also, Is there any place offering service for installing the
crystallographic softwares in OS X?
The hope of above procedure is to enable you (and others) to do this
without having to rely on the
services of anyone else, and the corresponding wiki is there to help
make this a community
effort. It grew out of my own struggles as a naive user and
struggling assistant professor
at a "do it yourself university" where support for infrastructure is
quite minimal. I've kept it
going, even though there is less of a need for it now than in the
early days of OS X, because
many people have relied on it for speed and efficiency. Charging for
it would seem somehow
morally wrong, and probably would be a license violation as well.
Any piece of help is appreciated.Thanks!
Email me if I can be of any help.
Best wishes.
Bill
