Hi, On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Francesco Pietra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > Package "autodocktools" for amd6a is only available for sid. As an aid > to autodock (which is on the amd64 lenny repositories) I tried to > install it by downloading packages for sid and using dpkg.
You should not install sid binary package on lenny. Maybe you can build a lenny package using autodocktools source package from sid. Best regards, Bin > From dependency to dependency I met obstacles for package mgtools-molkit, > whick requires *.pybabel, *.dejavu, *.bhtree, *.sff (* = mgltools). > Downloading these, dpkg found unsurmountable dependency problems. > > Should anyone have succeeded with lenny, please help. > > People doing computational chemistry can't keep updated with the > latest amd64 because fundamental, non-graphical, number-crunching > parallelized codes would not run. Even if I tried the installation of > autodocktools on a secondary amd 64 machines where graphics is > available, also the "fundamental" parallelized codes are installed to > carry out preliminary setting of files for the main machine. So, we > are left without the gui for autodock. > > This is a recurrent problem. I believe that for science it would be > better to provide quasi-static compilations (as some developers do, > see for example Chimera as one of the most successful examples.) > > Unless help comes, I am in the situation of a couple of years ago, > when I was at etch and the above stuff was for lenny and i had to > renounce to autodock. Now, I I have again to renounce to autodock. > > regards > francesco pietra > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
