Hello,

The file that you downloaded is already executable. 

First of all, test to see if using one of our test files (.wg format) causes 
the command work or fail. http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/wiggle.html

Other places to troubleshoot:

1) the computer you are using is not a linux.x86_64 machine
2) the version of the executable is corrupted. Are you able to just type in the 
command and get back the usage statement? If not, download a fresh copy.
3) your environment does not have the correct libraries or variables set. 
Confirm that the kent source tree is set up correctly (including ENV vars in 
your shell file).
4) there is a problem in one of the input files. Double check the formats. 
Confirm that the  .wq and the chrom sizes are from the same genome (ex: h18)

Start with these and see what happens. If you continue to have problems, send a 
small portion of your input file (that demonstrates the problem), note the 
database that you believe the file is from (and that it is the same database 
chrom sizes is based on), a copy of the unix lines where the failure is 
(showing the executed statement and error), and I can double check to see if it 
works here. If it works, that would narrow down the problem to be not based on 
file format, but something wrong with the unix environment. If it does not 
work, I can help to find our where the file problem is.

Please send any sample data (small sample, not complete file) back to me 
directly,
Jennifer

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Jennifer Jackson 
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group 

----- "Ali M. Mosamam" <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: "Ali M. Mosamam" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:32:31 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: [Genome] wigToBigWig
>
> Hi UCSC users,
> I have downloaded WigToBigWig from the directory of binary utilities:
> http://genome-test.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/
> and would like to run  the command line WigToBigWig input.wig.gz
> chrom.sizes myBigWig.bw
> I would be most grateful if you would advice me how can I make this
> binary file to be executable in Unix. I tried 
> chmod  and then run the above code but there is an error "segmentation
> fault".
> 
> 
>  Best Regards
> Ali
> 
> 
> 
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