Maybe it was not a wise decision to go with RHEL in the first place. My gripe is not with coot itself but the OS dependency hunting. Remember I still use for r3d illustrations XtalView, which hasn't been updated since Middle Earth, to give you some idea of my latest Linux install experience.
I'll try the other binary packages that were suggested, while I Yum away... Best, BR -----Original Message----- From: Mailing list for users of COOT Crystallographic Software [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Emsley Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: clean install on RHEL 6.2 On 09/02/12 07:10, Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.) wrote: > Dear Cootsies, > > following Paul's advice I started to autobuild coot using > http://lmb.bioch.ox.ac.uk/coot/build-install-coot-from-scratch.html > > It is a little bit like whacking hamsters - it needs swig, which needs > pcre... > > Sorry about this. RHEL 6.x binaries should be available shortly after I get back [1]. I have a such a machine under my desk now. I need to make the release for 0.7, Find a monitor and keyboard and switch for the beastie, Then I can log in, run the script and feel your pain. I would have thought (without checking) that yum would provide a sufficiently recent swig to make coot compile script happy... not so much manual begetting? Paul. [1] from Melbourne.
