Hi I have the (unique??) problem that I have no root access on my computer at work but would like to be able to install and run relax (and update it without having to call my slow system administrator every time). All this was possible thanks to Edward's help over skype. I wanted to share the experience with all users just in case someone else finds himself in a similar situation. I installed on linux FEDORA ... Here's the step-by-step (although in the end it is nothing more than what is described in the docs, but with the key step that the python ./configure command be run with a flag "prefix" pointing to a writable directory... see below): 1)I downloaded the following into an install directory (/scratch/cfares/install) relax-1.3.2.GNU-Linux.i686.tar.bz2 Python >= 2.4: Python-2.4.3.tar.bz2 Numeric >= 21: Numeric-24.2.tar.gz Scientific Python >= 2.2: ScientificPython-2.4.11.tar.gz minfx >= 1.0.1: minfx-1.0.1.tar.bz2 numpy >= 1.0.4: numpy-1.0.4.tar.gz scons: scons-1.1.0.tar.gz
2) I untarred each with "tar -zxvf *.tar.gz" and "tar -jxvf *.tar.bz2" 3) Python 2.4: (it is important to do this first) cd Python-2.4.3/ ./configure --prefix=/scratch/cfares !!!!!!! make make install now I had to check if this version of python is the one that is called up by the command "python". For eg: % which python /scratch/cfares/bin/python If not, you may have to modify your $PATH so that "/scratch/cfares/bin" appears at a more prevailing position 4) For each directory of Numeric, Scientific, numpy, minfx, scons: cd <directory> python setup.py build !(this step only for Numeric, Scientific, numpy) python setup.py install 5) relax-1.3.2: cd relax-1.3.2/ scons clean_all scons relax within relax, the following should work without errors: relax> import Numeric relax> import Scientific relax> import numpy relax> import minfx but the real test was the following which gave only one error (from the command line) % relax --test-suite The error that I got is related to this issue: https://mail.gna.org/public/relax-commits/2008-10/msg00316.html 6) finally, if all goes well, you can link it: ln -s /scratch/cfares/install/relax-1.3.2/relax /scratch/cfares/bin/relax hope this helps Christophe __________________________________________________________________ Christophe Farès 200 Elizabeth St MBRC 5th Floor, R414 Toronto, ON M5G2C4 Canada E-mail: cfares @ uhnres.utoronto.ca __________________________________________________________________ Clinical Genomics Centre - Proteomics University Health Network University of Toronto __________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ relax (http://nmr-relax.com) This is the relax-users mailing list relax-users@gna.org To unsubscribe from this list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, visit the list information page at https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-users