Warren,
This is what I'm going to do. I've kludge up the installation
on my PC to run pymol. I've been able to download a .pdb file
from the PDB and actually display a protien structure. (Really
cool!) I'm going to try and rationalize my kludges so that anyone
who installs the rpm's just has to type 'pymol' under linux and
bingo, their off and running. There are a couple of tricks I
can apply to the installation to make it integrate better with
redhat linux.
Also, I'm going to shy away from pulling the code out of CVS.
Since I'm building RPM's, this does suggest some kind of stable
release, even tho it's a moving target. So that fact that you
went through the trouble of putting a .tar.gz file for .73 must
mean that .73 has some significance of some sort. Maybe in the
near future I can work on some kind of nightly build option or
something which does pull the code right out of CVS.
Cheers Steve.
DeLano, Warren wrote:
Stephen,
Glad to see you're interested! O'Reilly was a blast...
Right now PyMOL is more of a continuous process rather than a discrete
set of release stages. Try building off of the CVS source.
In theory, the 'ext' distribution contains all the dependencies you need
(including Pmw and Numeric), but most of those are now getting to be
quite out of date. Yu're best off assembling all of the necessary
dependencies from their respective web sites. Please use Python 2.1 or
greater.
PyMOL isn't really a well behaved Python module, right now. That will
change soon. The problem is that PyMOL needs a bit more coddling than a
normal Python module in order to run. You can stick all of PyMOL under
/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/pymol, but you'll need to adjust
PYMOLPATH accordingly in the "pymol.com" script, and you'll want to copy
or link that script to someplace useful (such as /usr/local/bin).
Ok, after googling the term Numeric I've come across
Numpy which looks to be Numeric. From what I can tell, it
looks like Numeric (or Numpy) is not distributed with redhat
and thus a seperate installation is necessary. Thus the
numeric rpms on the pymol site. If this were to be done
right, the numeric rpms should be located in the numpy
site, rather than the pymol site. I'm wondering if this
goes for Pwm as well....
- Warren
