I’ll qualify this post by saying that (1) I have given up on Ubuntu 11.x and 12.x because they are consistently unstable on my hardware (so, if you have issues running this installation on those versions, I may not be of much help (although I suspect things should work)), (2) I am starting this install […]

This post is a brief update to a much longer and more involved discussion of Amber 11 and AmberTools installation in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) (as the changes are minor and the parallelization setup remains largely the same). You can find this more involved discussion at www.somewhereville.com/?p=1422. Long/Short – the installation under Ubuntu 12.04 […]

It has been a banner week for Ubuntu installations. The installation of Abinit 5.6.5 with OpenMPI 1.3.1 (previously reported at www.somewhereville.com/?p=384) wasn’t bad, but several games had to be played (at the time) to make everything compile and run correctly. I’m pleased to report that Abinit 6.8.1 and OpenMPI 1.4.1 seem to play better together, […]

Having successfully navigated serial and parallel Amber10 installs under Ubuntu 8.10, I am pleased to report that the process for Amber11 with OpenMPI (from apt-get, one doesn’t have to build from scratch) under Ubuntu 10.10 is seemingly much easier (and have it here so I don’t forget). There is a bit of persnicketiness to the […]

Taking care of a DNA/RNA fragment alignment installation triple-threat with this post. These Ubuntu installs for largely problem-free, but one little trick is needed for Amos (this because of my use of “/opt” for my usual installation and compilation attempts and, more so, my not being interested in modifying the root PATH statement despite the […]