Dear All hopefully the fix for modules.def is now in the source and binaries for ccp4 6.1.13
Charles Ballard CCP4 On 30 Aug 2010, at 18:06, ger...@embl-hamburg.de wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > some of you might have noticed that ARP/wARP does not install cleanly with > the latest version of CCP4, 6.1.13. We did some experiments ourselves and can > confirm the observation of an incomplete installation that is only partly > functional, the lack of the possibility of manual deinstallation and the > following error message that appears at the time of running the ARP/wARP > 'install.sh' script: > can't read "getcontentlist_array(TASK_MODULE,206)": no such element in array > > NOTE: You can skip the next paragraph if you're not interested in how I > reproduced the error and proceed to a bug fix. Sorry for the long paragraph. > Two scenarios of CCP4+ARP/wARP installation were tested: Mac OSX 10.5 and > Ubuntu Linux 9, x86_64. Both the latest versions of both softwares. The > download of CCP4 was made from ccp4.ac.uk, a typical installation chosen, > which included also the tclsh/bltwish components that the GUI depends on. The > dmg-installer was used on the Mac to install into the folder /Applications, > on Linux the downloaded file was just untarred in a folder of choice followed > by running CCP4's 'install.sh'. The 'ccp4.setup_sh/csh' file was placed into > the user's shell config file by sourcing it there: '.bashrc', '.cshrc', > '.tcshrc' depending on the shell used. Starting from a terminal that has the > new CCP4 environment setup, the ARP/wARP installation could be done. On the > Mac however it is more complicated because the superuser owns the > installation. Through 'sudo xterm' and in there 'source ~user/.cshrc' (to be > replaced by your settings) the ccp4 environment is setup for the superuser. > In both cases (on the Mac as superuser) 'cd' to the ARP/wARP folder, e.g. > arp_warp_7.1, and run ARP/wARP's 'install.sh'. This script tries to install > ARP/wARP into the CCP4 GUI automatically and this is where problems start. > The error message from above, the 'Program List' contains no buttons from the > installation, these are just in 'Model Building', manual deinstallation is > not possible, the new tasks don't seem to be registered with the CCP4 GUI. > > The fix: The tcl-files that control the installation of a new software module > read the file '$CCP4I_TOP/etc/UNIX/modules.def'. This file seems to have a > line missing: In the block of 'TASK_MODULE' lines (around line 500) the entry > 'TASK_MODULE,206 programlist' is missing. Please add it there at about > the right place. Rerun the ARP/wARP installation and the error message should > be gone, the installation should be complete, i.e. ARP/wARP buttons in > 'program list', too, and the possibility of manual deinstallation. > > I hope this is helpful. > > Cheers, > Gerrit.
