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Coot 0.5-pre1-968

This will only work on 10.5 ppc.

You need to create a directory:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/xtal

Then move the downloaded coot-10.5-pre-1-968-ppc-April20_2008.tgz to that directory and unpack it:

sudo mv coot-10.5-pre-1-968-ppc-April20_2008.tgz  /usr/local/xtal
cd /usr/local/xtal
sudo tar xvfz  coot-10.5-pre-1-968-ppc-April20_2008.tgz

Now you can run it with

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

Download from here:

coot-10.5-pre-1-968-ppc-April20_2008.tgz

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

You need X11.pkg version 2.2.0.1 or newer to run this

Please install X11.pkg version 2.2.0.1 from

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz

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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