[gmx-users] Question about installing DSSP on Ubuntu 12.10

[Justin Lemkul]

On 10/9/13 6:42 AM, Mass wrote:
> Hi Justin
> Thanks for your answer but I could not solve the problem, sorry
> Can you tell me how can I fix this part? the highlighted part is your answer
>
>> I google it and found this on ubuntu forum but I followed it and still I am getting error
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>> accept DSSP is not in official ubuntu repositories, but you can install it manually:
>> sudo wgetftp://ftp.cmbi.ru.nl/pub/software/dssp/dssp-2.0.4-linux-amd64
> <ftp://ftp.cmbi.ru.nl/pub/software/dssp/dssp-2.0.4-linux-amd64>-O
> /usr/local/bin/dssp
>> or
>> sudo wgetftp://ftp.cmbi.ru.nl/pub/software/dssp/dssp-2.0.4-linux-i386
> <ftp://ftp.cmbi.ru.nl/pub/software/dssp/dssp-2.0.4-linux-i386>-O /usr/local/bin/dssp
>> And for the end:
>> sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/dssp
>>
>>    I have done this but still I am getting Fatal error: DSSP executable (/opt/dssp/bin/dssp) does not exist (use setenv DSSP) –
>
> If you have set the $DSSP environment variable to point to /opt/dssp/bin/dssp,
> then you should get a fatal error, because based on the above commands, your
> dssp is in /usr/local/bin/dssp, which is the default location where do_dssp
> looks for it.  If $DSSP is set, it overrides the default, which in your case is
> causing problems.
>
> How can I resolve this?
>

If your dssp executable is /usr/local/bin/dssp, do not set the DSSP environment 
variable as that is the default location that do_dssp will look for.  If your 
dssp executable is somewhere else, set DSSP to indicate its location.

-Justin

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