[gmx-users] Gromacs installation question: Where is my Gromacs?

[Justin A. Lemkul]

bestenborstel wrote:
> Dear all,
> I tried to install today Gromacs.
> I downloaded gromacs 4.5.5, Cuda, FFTW3. 
> Installation of FFTW3 and Cuda went fine so far.
> I managed to execute
> 
> sudo ./configure (in the gromacs untar folder).
> sudo make

The above steps do not need to be executed with sudo.

> sudo make install
> 
> make links did not work and I cannot find gromcas. There is no folder /usr/local/gromacs. I am a bit puzzled as I did install it.
> 

When you say "make links did not work," what happened?  Was there are an error 
message of some sort?  If your installation had been successful, you would 
indeed have a /usr/local/gromacs directory.  The fact that it is not there 
suggests the installation did not actually work.  Perhaps you missed an error 
message somewhere along the way.

If I recall, /usr/local does not exist by default on Mac (I seem to remember 
having to create it myself).  Perhaps that is an issue?  If /usr/local doesn't 
exist, I don't know if Gromacs will create it or not.  Just speculation there.

-Justin

> I am on MacOSx 10.6.7 and I used Terminal bash during the installation process.
> 
> What can I do now to get Gromacs installed and running, please?
> 
> Thank you.
> Kind regards
> Gudrun 
> 

-- 
========================================

Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin

========================================