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Coot 0.5-final

This will only work on 10.4.11 ppc.

You need to create a directory:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/xtal

Then move the downloaded coot_10.4.11_ppc__0.5-final.tgz to that directory and unpack it:

sudo mv coot_10.4.11_ppc__0.5-final.tgz   /usr/local/xtal
cd /usr/local/xtal
sudo tar xvfz  coot_10.4.11_ppc__0.5-final.tgz

Now you can run it with

 /usr/local/xtal/coot/bin/coot  

Download from here:

coot_10.4.11_ppc__0.5-final.tgz

Please note that you have to put it into /usr/local/xtal or it won't work right.

Problem with /usr/local/xtal/coot/lib/libgmp.3.dylib

If you have a G4 you may have a problem with /usr/local/xtal/coot/lib/libgmp.3.dylib being reported to have the wrong architecture.

If so, please try replacing /usr/local/xtal/coot/lib/libgmp.3.dylib with the following libgmp.3.dylib.gz

gunzip libgmp.3.dylib.gz
sudo cp libgmp.3.dylib  usr/local/xtal/coot/lib/libgmp.3.dylib

Optional: Coot Auto-Opener

This should now be compatible with the above:

You can download my CootAutoOpener applet. It allows you to double-click an icon to open the version of coot installed in /usr/local/xtal/coot/bin/coot, i.e., the above stand-alone installs. It should also allow you to drag a file to the icon and open it that way, loading the file, and it will run coot from the directory in which that file is located. I made it with a shell-script wrapper called Platypus.

If you drop a file, coot will run in the directory containing that file. Otherwise it will run from your Desktop directory.

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