Hello Jared, > Two of the grad students in our structural biology course are having > similar problems installing Coot on their Mac computers using the > stand-alone packages from Bill Scott's Crystallography on OS X website.
I did the same thing about 2 months ago. I tried out the package on about 20 student laptops for a single day class we held. About half of the installations didn't work with either the "magic number" error or a second error that I can't recall. > $ coot My recollection is that this is a shell script wrapper that calls the actual coot-real binary, and in that wrapper there is a PYTHONPATH setting. If it hasn't changed since I last tried to use Bill's package, that PYTHONPATH contains the system python 2.5 and 2.6 modules directories, but the python that is compiled into Coot via Fink is python 2.7. Removing the non-2.7 directories from the PYTHONPATH got about 5 more of the installations working. The remaining machines wouldn't run the package no matter what I tried. Good luck! -ben -- | Ben Eisenbraun | SBGrid Consortium | http://sbgrid.org | | Harvard Medical School | http://hms.harvard.edu |
