e).
Not that I disagree with any of your points, thought.
Pete
-Original Message-
From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Konrad Hinsen
Sent: Tue 4/29/2008 5:04 AM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 install on Leopard
On Apr 29, 2008, at 11:25, Andreas Förster wrote:
>
I usually install crystallographic software as administrator using
sudo under /usr/local/xtal and make it readable/executable for all
users. This is sufficient in my experience.
Best regards,
Dirk.
Am 29.04.2008 um 12:51 schrieb PhilEvans:
I've not found it necessary to activate root. I've
I've not found it necessary to activate root. I've installed quite a
lot of stuff in /usr/local but found it useful to make /usr/local
belong to me (sudo chown -R /usr/local). With fink, I use sudo &
not found it inconvenient (you can use "sudo -s" to go into admin mode
until further notic
On Apr 29, 2008, at 2:25 AM, Andreas Förster wrote:
Why working with sudo is safer than working as root is not clear to
me. After all, the danger is not in root but in the uneducated user.
The danger *is* in root, if for no other reason than you must type
"sudo" before you issue that comman
On Apr 29, 2008, at 11:25, Andreas Förster wrote:
Why working with sudo is safer than working as root is not clear to
me. After all, the danger is not in root but in the uneducated
user. If you're paranoid, you can keep using sudo until you get
stuck and then switch to root.
There are t
Without having followed this thread, wouldn't the whole procedure you
describe also work with
1. Open a terminal
2. type 'sudo passwd root'
3. Enter the current users password (to allow for the sudo-command)
4. Enter the new root password (twice)
This should work under all versions of MacOSX.
A few month's back, and a few moments before almost throwing my
Powerbook out the window, I enabled the root account, as officially
described (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106290):
How to enable the root user
Mac OS X 10.5 or later
1. From the Finder's Go menu, choose Uti
On Apr 25, 2008, at 3:14 PM, William Scott wrote:
Yes, that is a general "problem" with sudo, with the latest version
distributed in OS X.
Briefly, sudo (and I have noticed other programs, like screen) don't
inherit the environment, so
sudo ccp4i
no longer works.
sudo -s
spawns a root shell
Yes, that is a general "problem" with sudo, with the latest version
distributed in OS X.
Briefly, sudo (and I have noticed other programs, like screen) don't
inherit the environment, so
sudo ccp4i
no longer works.
sudo -s
spawns a root shell.
Then you can source the environment file, and then
1. I was sourcing /sw/bin/init.csh, so that wasn't the problem...but:
2. I did find the problem (at least for the precompiled version from
UC Santa Cruz): For some reason "sudo ccp4i" gave the error message,
but just "ccp4i" (without the sudo) worked OK. (Although I thought
the first ti
You need to run
source /sw/bin/init.sh
if you use bash or zsh
or
source /sw/bin/init.csh
if you use tcsh.
this will automatically set up the environment variables and then it
will do what you want it to (which is to set up the ccp4 environment
according to whichever shell you might be us
Oh, you tried the binaries..sorry..
Hmmm..I don't recall having the same problem..I'll have a look at what
I've got here. You could always compile it from source code..
Iain
Iain Kerr wrote:
Patrick,
I've not used fink to install ccp4 so can't comment on that, but if
you want a quickie wor
Patrick,
I've not used fink to install ccp4 so can't comment on that, but if you
want a quickie working suite:
I downloaded the pre-compiled binaries from the CCP4 ftp site and they
work fine.
ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.0.2/binaries/
Use the Tcl/tk and Blt distributions on the CCP4 websit
Accck!
1. I tried to install Bill Scott's precompiled ccp4 on an intel mac
running OS X 10.5. When attempting launch ccp4i, I receive this
error message:
/sw/share/xtal/ccp4-6.0.2/ccp4i/bin/ccp4i: line 4 /bltwish: no such
file or directory
Typing "which bltwish" returns /sw/bin/bltwis
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