CCP4I on an imac

From: REX PALMER
Date: 10 October 2011 11:33

Dear CCP4'ers

Can anyone help with the following problem:

 

How do we  install CCP4I on an imac.

As yet we have had no success only error messages concerning working directories etc.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Rex Palmer
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/biology/our-staff/emeritus-staff
http://rexpalmer2010.homestead.com

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From: R. M. Garavito

Rex,

Can give us a bit more detail (OS version, source of CCP4i, and type of errors)? I am in the midst of reorganizing our little Mac computer cluster, and CCP4 with CCP4i installs nicely on OS 10.6.8 and 10.7.1.  However, there were some permissions that need resetting to allow you to fire up CCP4i correctly (such as having write permissions on some of the files and directories to setup CCP4i for the first time).  Is this the problem?  This and other permission problems were discussed earlier, with potential solutions, on the CCP4BB.

However, two insidious problems linger with the packages that come from the CCP4 download site.  For Coot 0.6.2 to find the CIF files properly with CCP4 6.2.0, the coot startup file has to be edited to point to the CCP4 6.2.0 directory and not to the non-existing CCP4 6.1.13 directory.  But this may not be a problem with Coot 0.6.2  and CCP4 6.2.0 obtained elsewhere (such as from Bill Scott's versions on Fink).

While I could correct the former problem easily enough, working with Lion and Java with CCP4 6.2.0 output seems more confusing.  Opening the the *.log and *.html results in a variety of browsers leads to a note that Java is not enabled for the graphs.  Well, Java is installed (which must be done separately on Lion) and enabled, but the browsers still do not seem to be able to find the JLogGraph files in $CBIN.  It works fine on 10.6.8, though, and the graphs work fine when using CCP4i.  So it is a minor annoyance.

But the bottom line is that  CCP4i installs fine on most Intel Macs, from iMac to MacMini to MacPro.

Cheers,

Michael

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R. Michael Garavito, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

513 Biochemistry Bldg.   

Michigan State University      

East Lansing, MI 48824-1319