lbthrice
December 14th, 2007, 03:15 AM
Hi all,
I checked around the forums a little to see if this information was posted previously but could not find it...however my searching kung fu leaves something to be desired, so I apologize if this is already out there.
For anyone trying to compile EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Suite) on Ubuntu Feisty (7.04):
the ./configure will show that you need to update/install gd libraries for plplot
if you do not watch the ./configure output then the lack of required gd library will manifest as an error when you try to run an EMBOSS program, like wossname. You will get:
'libnucleus.so.5 does not exist'
...or something of that nature...sorry can't recall the error verbatim
just go to synaptic and install plplot from there! then make clean, ./configure, make and then make install. This will yield a working EMBOSS install.
Another way to do it is to download the .rpm instead of the tar.gzip distros and use alien to transform the .rpm to .deb.
Good news: it looks like EMBOSS will be available as a .deb in the ubuntu Hardy repository!
I checked around the forums a little to see if this information was posted previously but could not find it...however my searching kung fu leaves something to be desired, so I apologize if this is already out there.
For anyone trying to compile EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Suite) on Ubuntu Feisty (7.04):
the ./configure will show that you need to update/install gd libraries for plplot
if you do not watch the ./configure output then the lack of required gd library will manifest as an error when you try to run an EMBOSS program, like wossname. You will get:
'libnucleus.so.5 does not exist'
...or something of that nature...sorry can't recall the error verbatim
just go to synaptic and install plplot from there! then make clean, ./configure, make and then make install. This will yield a working EMBOSS install.
Another way to do it is to download the .rpm instead of the tar.gzip distros and use alien to transform the .rpm to .deb.
Good news: it looks like EMBOSS will be available as a .deb in the ubuntu Hardy repository!