relax.1.3.2 install with no root access -- October 17, 2008 - 00:05

Hi

I have the (unique??) problem that I have no root access on my computer at 
work but would like to be able to install and run relax (and update it 
without having to call my slow system administrator every time). All this was 
possible thanks to Edward's help over skype. I wanted to share the experience 
with all users just in case someone else finds himself in a similar 
situation. I installed on linux FEDORA ... Here's the step-by-step (although 
in the end it is nothing more than what is described in the docs, but with 
the key step that the python ./configure command be run with a flag "prefix" 
pointing to a writable directory... see below):
 
1)I downloaded the following into an install directory 
(/scratch/cfares/install)
        relax-1.3.2.GNU-Linux.i686.tar.bz2
        Python >= 2.4: Python-2.4.3.tar.bz2 
        Numeric >= 21: Numeric-24.2.tar.gz
        Scientific Python >= 2.2: ScientificPython-2.4.11.tar.gz 
        minfx >= 1.0.1: minfx-1.0.1.tar.bz2 
        numpy >= 1.0.4: numpy-1.0.4.tar.gz
        scons: scons-1.1.0.tar.gz

2) I untarred each with "tar -zxvf *.tar.gz" and "tar -jxvf *.tar.bz2"

3) Python 2.4: (it is important to do this first)
        cd Python-2.4.3/
        ./configure --prefix=/scratch/cfares         !!!!!!!
        make
        make install

        now I had to check if this version of python is the one that is 
called up by the command "python". For eg:
        % which python
/scratch/cfares/bin/python

If not, you may have to modify your $PATH so that "/scratch/cfares/bin" 
appears at a more prevailing position

4) For each directory of Numeric, Scientific, numpy, minfx, scons:
        cd <directory>
        python setup.py build !(this step only for Numeric, Scientific, numpy)
        python setup.py install 

5) relax-1.3.2:
        cd relax-1.3.2/
        scons clean_all
        scons
        relax

within relax, the following should work without errors:
relax> import Numeric
relax> import Scientific
relax> import numpy
relax> import minfx

but the real test was the following which gave only one error (from the 
command line)
% relax --test-suite

The error that I got is related to this issue: 
https://mail.gna.org/public/relax-commits/2008-10/msg00316.html

6) finally, if all goes well, you can link it: 
ln -s /scratch/cfares/install/relax-1.3.2/relax /scratch/cfares/bin/relax

hope this helps

Christophe
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Christophe Farès
200 Elizabeth St
MBRC 5th Floor, R414
Toronto, ON   M5G2C4
Canada
E-mail: cfares @ uhnres.utoronto.ca
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Clinical Genomics Centre - Proteomics
University Health Network
University of Toronto
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