IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

1.  In principle, you are doing nothing different than you would do if you manually downloaded and installed your software.  This means the same licensing restrictions apply.  I hereby wash my hands of any legal responsibilities.  Use this at your own risk.  

2.  This version installs stuff in /sw/share/xtal rather than /usr/local.  There are advantages and disadvantages to this.  

a.  If you have already installed stuff into /usr/local, you won't over-write anything accidently with (possibly) corrupted installations.

b.  It is installed with fink, so it stays within fink.

[c.  By creating a new directory under /sw,  I am violating one of the primary directives of fink.]  Now in /sw/share/xtal

You can then manually move your /sw/share/xtal to /sw/xtal (or /sw/local or whatever you want to call it) and then create a symbolic link between it and the original directory. This will make backups much easier.

d.  By creating a new directory /sw/xtal, it will be easier to back up or un-install everything.

3.  These scripts no longer automatically modify /etc/csh.login, but rather do it the fink way, which is to create individual program-specific scripts that are all run at startup of a shell,  These are placed in /sw/etc/profile.d/   Have a look.   You may have to manually edit out conflicting junk from your /etc/csh.login file.


4.  In the cases of CNS (and now arp-warp), for licensing reasons you must download your own tarballs.  Download all 3 and copy (or move) these files in their ORIGINAL packed state into /sw/src

i.e.,

% sudo cp ~/Desktop/cns*.gz /sw/src/.

before you try

% fink install cns

or else it won't work.

Type  % fink describe cns for further details.


Also, you will need to install the Chimera browser (Cocoa-ized Mozilla) to use cns_edit the way I have set it up.  (I'll figure out how to add that to the install script at some point.)  Read my CNS page for details, links, etc.

5.  In the case of Solve, for licensing reasons you must obtain an access file and put it into /Users/Shared in order for the installation to work.

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1.  This table lists what software is available to compile or to install as precompiled binaries.

2.  Here is all you need to do.

3.  Here is how it all works.

4.  Important additional comments. 

5.  Back to "Installing Crystallography Software automatically using fink"