[gmx-users] installation problem

[Mark Abraham]

vincenzo venditti wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am trying to install Gromacs 3.3 on a PC running redhat linux 
> enterprise v4. Then I have downloaded and installed (using "rpm -ivh" 
> command) the files fftw3-3.0.1-4.ppc64.rpm and gromacs3.3-1.ppc64.rpm, 
> but these files install the GROMACS binaries under /usr/bin (instead of 
> /usr/local/bin), libraries in /usr/lib (instead of /usr/local/lib) and 
> all the GROMACS data files in /usr/share/gromacs (instead 
> /usr/local/share/gromacs). After installation the software doesn't work.
> Do you think it is a good solution to use the command line "rpm –ivh 
> –prefix /usr/local gromacs3.3-1.ppc64.rpm"?

The "--prefix /usr/local" solution you suggest looks reasonable enough. 
Depending exactly how the RPMs were built, you may still need to add 
/usr/local/gromacs-xxxx/bin (or whatever is appropriate) to you path. I 
guess that the fact that your path does not include the gromacs 
executables is the reason "the software doesn't work".

I presume you've chosen the PPC64 versions appropriately.

Mark

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Mark J. Abraham
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Computational Proteomics and Therapy Design Group
Division of Molecular Bioscience
John Curtin School of Medical Research
Australian National University
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