Dear Jack and Bill, You were both right- the fink install was a total bear. I needed to re-install fink, and ran into lots of problems with the self-update from there. I did get it to finally work, though-pymol looks great!
And Bill- thanks for the pointer to your webpages. You maintain a vital set of packages :) Thanks again, Lorraine On 9/19/07 11:54 AM, "jhowa...@cinci.rr.com" <jhowa...@cinci.rr.com> wrote: > Lorraine, > Have you upgraded a fink 10.3 installation to 10.4? My > experience is that this process has a lot of rough edges > and that you are far better off to move aside your /sw > directory and reinstall the current fink in that case. > Jack > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: William Scott <wgsc...@chemistry.ucsc.edu> > Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:37 am > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] How do I handle pmw virtual package for pymol 1.0 > on Mac OS 10.4.10? > To: Lorraine Cavanaugh <lc2...@columbia.edu> > Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net, jhowa...@cinci.rr.com > >> >> Hi Lorraine: >> >> All of the python packages in fink have suffixes that correspond to >> version numbers, so if you wanted to use pymol with the most >> current >> python, you should issue >> >> fink selfupdate; fink update-all; fink install pymol-py25 >> >> I would have thought that would automatically ensure you have >> python25 >> and pmw-25 installed. >> >> I'm a bit suprised that you list pmw-py22 as one of the options, as >> it >> does not exist in the current 10.4 branch of fink. The only thing I >> can >> think of is that you aren't using the current 10.4 branch of fink, but >> are still running the 10.3 branch of fink or the 10.4-transitional >> branchthat was phased out a year ago. >> >> Anyway, you need to install the pmw verstion that corresponds to >> the pymol >> version. >> >> I've cc-ed the maintainer in case he has any insights. I thought >> installing pymol would have forced you to install the right version >> of >> pmw. >> >> Bill >> >> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Lorraine Cavanaugh wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I have been successfully using pymol 0.99 (open source >> version) on my Mac >> (dual G5) for a while now and am trying to upgrade to version >> 1.0. >> I can install and compile the program under the Fink >> environment. When I >> try to run the program I get an error message that basically >> says that the >> program can't find pmw. >> >> Now, I realize that this is a dependency- so I checked with >> fink to see what >> was installed EXACTLY (since I thought it was installed already). >> >> What is specifically installed is: >> Pmw-py22 >> Pmw-py23 >> Pmw-py24 >> >> And Fink says that pmw is installed, but it is a virtual >> package, where the >> previously mentioned packages are actually the ones that >> provide the >> widgets. >> >> What's the best way to work around this? How can I get the >> old pmw package >> under fink? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Lorraine >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Lorraine Cavanaugh, Ph. D. >> Postdoctoral Research Associate >> Hunt Lab >> Department of Biological Sciences >> Columbia University >> New York, NY >> >> >> <lc2...@columbia.edu> >> <lo...@biology.columbia.edu> >> <mayaguezco...@gmail.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >>
