From et22 at leicester.ac.uk  Tue Mar 20 17:37:00 2007
From: et22 at leicester.ac.uk (Tauber, Dr E.)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:37:00 -0000
Subject: [Bio-Linux] Problems installing R8S
Message-ID: <0F0BFB9DA110794CA64C94D36F6BF5A306FB75E0@sumac.cfs.le.ac.uk>

 
Dear all,
 
I'm trying to install the r8s program on Bio-Linux and I keep getting "cannot execute binary file" error. I did not  have that problem a few years ago (probably with an earlier version of r8s, and older Biolinux). Can anyone help?
Thanks, Eran
Eran Tauber (PhD)
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Dept. of Genetics
University of Leicester
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From bioinformatics.lists at gmail.com  Wed Mar 21 05:03:12 2007
From: bioinformatics.lists at gmail.com (Dan Swan)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:03:12 +0000
Subject: [Bio-Linux] Problems installing R8S
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On 3/20/07, Tauber, Dr E. <et22 at leicester.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to install the r8s program on Bio-Linux and I keep getting "cannot execute binary file" error. I did not  have that problem a few years ago (probably with an earlier version of r8s, and older Biolinux). Can anyone help?

Eran,

the latest version of r8s (1.71) has a Mac OS X binary in the bin/
directory, *not* a Linux one:

dswan at bioinf1[r8s] file ./r8s1.71/bin/r8s
./r8s1.71/bin/r8s: Mach-O executable ppc

If you change into the r8s src/ directory

and type:

make

This will build a version of r8s for Bio-Linux.  It will appear in the
src directory.  To execute it in situ just type:

./r8s

You can then move this somwhere more convenient.

regards,

Dan


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