... strange, I have not seen any problems installing ARPwARP 7.1 on a new 
CCP6-6.2.0 install on
- linux centos
- os-x snow leopard, here I initially ran into write permissions issues and 
wound up changing the ownership of the /Applications/ccp4-6.2.0 directory

Cheers
Jan

On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:00 PM, ccp4 wrote:

> A plea from West Australia too.
> I was sitting with someone yesterday who was trying to install it on a Mac
> , and finding it a nightmare. 
> He finally got it set up as a local installation, whereupon it promtly
> failed. 
> The message said See refmac-last.log but that told us nothing, and indeed
> refmac seemed to have worked..
> 
> Can someone - either CCP4 or  arp-warp people check this out?
> 
> Eleanor
> 
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:35:50 -0700, Ethan Merritt
> <merr...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 July 2011, you wrote:
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>> seems to be a UW centered day today on the BB (Eric, Jan, you, me).
>>> Have the permissions changed ? I assume you are installing as root ?
>>> Wouldn't be surprised if Ethan replies soon :-)
>> 
>> Sure.
>> 
>> I hit the same problem trying to install Arp/wARP on Mandriva.
>> The specific error message you quote comes because the install
>> script fails to create the temp directory before trying to unpack
>> into it.  You can fix that by creating the directory by hand first.
>> Unfortunately, that doesn't help very much.  The next thing that
>> happens is that the ccp4i installer complains that the tarball
>> is not recognized as a ccp4i install tarball.  I gave up at that
>> point.
>>      
>>      Ethan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Jürgen 
>>> 
>>> ......................
>>> Jürgen Bosch
>>> Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
>>> Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
>>> Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
>>> 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708
>>> Baltimore, MD 21205
>>> Phone: +1-410-614-4742
>>> Lab:      +1-410-614-4894
>>> Fax:      +1-410-955-3655
>>> http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/
>>> 
>>> On Jul 27, 2011, at 20:31, Jonathan Kay <jp...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I have a RHEL 6 x86_64 machine I recently installed CCP4-6.2.0 onto;
>>>> the install went through fine, but when I went to install the
> ARP/wARP
>>>> GUI (via System Administration -> Install/uninstall task), I received
>>>> the following error in the shell window I started ccp4i from:
>>>> 
>>>> UnpackTaskArchive: uncompress failed to create
>>>> "/tmp/user/install_ARP_wARP_CCP4I6/ARP_wARP_CCP4I6.tar"
>>>> ExamineTaskArchive: failed to unpack temporary copy of
>>>> /usr/local/arp_warp_7.1/ARP_wARP_CCP4I6.tar.gz
>>>> 
>>>> /tmp is not at all full and has plenty of inodes left.
>>>> (running the install.sh from the arp_warp_7.1 directory doesn't
>>>> install it either)
>>>> 
>>>> I have searched around for some solutions, but haven't found anything
>>>> really relevant.
>>>> The odd thing I have another x86_64 machine running RHEL 5 that I can
>>>> do the exact same install method and it works (and using the
> install.sh
>>>> from arp_warp_7.1/ works too), so I wonder if something changed with
>>>> RHEL6 that might be causing problems?
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Jonathan
>>> 

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Emerald BioStructures
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