Hi Jeff,

1. As Florent wrote, probably the easiest solution is to install the 
dependencies with MacPorts. Only if stuff is not available via MacPorts or the 
version available is too old / incompatible with other dependencies I install 
things manually. MacPorts will add a line like this:
-----------------------------
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH 
-----------------------------
to your ~/.profile file, which is automatically sourced when you open a new 
Terminal window. Galaxy is probably running using a different account than 
yours. Usually a dedicated one or one used for the webserver like _www or www 
or apache or ... This user must have the same addition to it's environment in 
order to find gnuplot et al. To give Galaxy the same environment you can either 
add the line above to galaxy/run.sh immediately after the first line that 
identifies the file as a shell script (#!/bin/sh) and before the code that 
starts Galaxy. Optionally you may specify the environment in a separate file 
and source this file. Personally I like the latter, because I can manage the 
environment for multiple users and software packages in a single file that I 
can call from various locations. To source a file you use the . command. Hence 
[dot][space][path to env file]. Your galaxy/run.sh would start like this:
-----------------------------
#!/bin/sh

#
# Source my custom environment including the path to MacPorts and other stuff I 
installed outside the default search paths
#
. /path/to/our_environment.bashrc
-----------------------------

In our_environment.bashrc you would than have the same line:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

and potentially other stuff to set your environment. 

2. For the gnuplot error below "unknown or ambiguous terminal type": It seems 
the gnuplot script Galaxy is calling is trying to use an unsupported 
"terminal". When you save the figure to a file a "terminal" is just a file 
type. In order to write jpeg, tiff, png, pdf, svg, etc. images gnuplot uses 
several libraries. When you install gnuplot it will look which libraries are 
available and based on that some image file formats may be available and others 
will not. It seems png support is not available. When you start a gnuplot 
terminal and type 'set terminal' for a list, do you see png as a supported 
terminal? If not, you should probably install libpng first and re-compile 
gnuplot. If you install gnuplot via MacPorts though it will probably already 
take care of this dependency and install it for you... 

Cheers,

Pi


On Apr 24, 2011, at 3:57 AM, Whyte, Jeffrey wrote:

> Hi Pieter,
> 
> Thanks very much for taking the time to provide the advice and explanations - 
> very helpful!  As you suggested, my search path was not defined properly to 
> locate gnuplot.  If I typed "gnuplot" in the Terminal, I would get the 
> message, "command not found".  Now, Gnuplot is in /usr/local/bin and this 
> directory is listed when I type "echo $PATH".  Now when I type "gnuplot" in 
> the terminal, I get:
> 
> $ gnuplot
> 
> G N U P L O T
> Version 4.4 patchlevel 3
> last modified March 2011
> System: Darwin 10.7.0
> 
> Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2010
> Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
> 
> gnuplot home:     http://www.gnuplot.info
> faq, bugs, etc:   type "help seeking-assistance"
> immediate help:   type "help"
> plot window:      hit 'h'
> 
> Terminal type set to 'aqua'
> gnuplot>
> 
> When I start up Galaxy, and try to run the Boxplot tool, I now get a 
> different error:
> 
> An error occurred running this job:
> gnuplot> set term png size 2048,768
> ^
> line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a 
> list
> 
> gnuplot> plot '/Users/JJWhyte/galaxy-dist/database/files/000/dataset_6.dat' 
> using 1:7:11:12:9 with candlest
> 
> I think this is related to the environment, as you explained in your second 
> paragraph.  I tried starting gnuplot from the Terminal first, then typing 
> "set term xterm", and then exiting, but this didn't change the error.  Could 
> you please explain how you set the environment in the galaxy/run.sh script?
> 
> Again, I appreciate the help.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 23, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Pieter Neerincx wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> This is indeed a dependency issue and I have seen those both on Linux and Mac 
> OS X. What happens if you type gnuplot in a Terminal window yourself? If you 
> also get "command not found". There is either still something missing or your 
> environment is not setup properly. If the tool works if you execute it 
> yourself in the Terminal, but it fails in Galaxy, you do have all the 
> dependencies and it's clearly an environment setup issue: your OS will search 
> for the binaries in a search path defined by the $PATH environment variable. 
> This means that if you call "gnuplot" without specifying the path where it is 
> installed, the OS will look in all directories specified in $PATH to find it. 
> If it cannot find it, it will give you "command not found". Additionally you 
> may have to set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well if the installed tools link to 
> libraries installed outside "default" locations.
> 
> Hence if you go to the Terminal and type:
> 
> echo $PATH
> 
> You will see a colon separated list of directories that should include the 
> location where the gnuplot binary is installed. If this is not the case, 
> please Google for setting $PATH on Mac OS X. If gnuplot does work if you 
> execute it on the commandline, but it fails in Galaxy, it most likely means 
> the environment for the user used to run Galaxy is different from yours (and 
> the location where gnuplot is installed is missing from $PATH). In that case 
> you can either set the environment in the galaxy/run.sh script used to start 
> Galaxy or if you can call a bashrc script to set the environment from 
> galaxy/run.sh. I use the latter where I have one bashrc script that sets the 
> environment for all users and by calling this one from galaxy/run.sh I make 
> sure the environment for Galaxy is exactly the same as for my (command line) 
> users.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pi
> 
> On Apr 22, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Whyte, Jeffrey wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting some of the tools to work on my local installation 
> of Galaxy on a Mac (OS X version 10.6.7).  The instructions on the GetGalaxy 
> wiki are clear, and I was able to download and install from the anonymous 
> Mercurial repository.  Galaxy starts up and runs just fine for tools like 
> "Get Data", "FASTQ Groomer", and "FASTQ Summary Statistics".
> 
> The problems started when I try to run Graph/Data Display -> Boxplot 
> (GnuPlot).  I get the error:
> 
> "An error occurred running this job:/bin/sh: gnuplot: command not found
> Error running gnuplot."
> 
> The FASTX Barcode Splitter also gives me an error:
> 
> "An error occurred running this 
> job:/Users/Me/galaxy-dist/tools/fastx_toolkit/fastx_barcode_splitter_galaxy_wrapper.sh:
>  line 65: fastx_barcode_splitter.pl: command not found
> zcat: /Users/Me/galaxy-dist/database/files/000/dataset_10.dat.Z: No such file 
> or directory
> sed: illegal opt"
> 
> I'm assuming these are Tool Dependency problems, although I have tried to 
> install the OS X versions of GnuPlot and the FASTX Toolkit and still get 
> errors.
> 
> Are there any suggestions from users who are successfully running Galaxy on 
> OS X?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff
> 
> 
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