21 January 2001 Tulio de Oliveira & Rob Miller tuliodna@yahoo.com, rob@inpharmatica.co.uk This is veresion 2.2 of GDE which I have attempted to port to Linux (glibc, kernel 2.0.x, Debian release but no .deb file). the basic installation steps are as follows: (1) get the OpenWin XView libraries and include files set up on your system. Binary versions of the libs are included in this distribution, but they may not work on your system. If they will work, you should be able to copy them to /usr/local/lib, run ldconfig, and have the included executable GDE files work. Use "ldconfig -v | grep libxv" to see if it's really finding the shared library, else "man ldconfig" and sort it out. It's better if you get the xview stuff properly installed on your system, but if you can't just grab the precompiled executables from the various subdirectories -- i.e., skip step (2) below. Rpm version of OpenView (Xview) library are included in the distribution at the CORE directory. xview-3.2p1.4-6.i386.rpm , xview-3.2p1.4-6.src.rpm , xview-clients-3.2p1.4-6.i386.rpm , xview-devel-3.2p1.4-6.i386.rpm For Redhat system: rpm -i xview-xxxx.rpm (2) The linux distribution had been compiled and provide the executables files. Until today GDE for linux had been sucessfull setup in Debian, RedHat, Mandrake and FreeBSD Linux distributions. (3) copy all the executables to wherever you want GDE to live, and set the environment variable GDE_HELP_DIR to that location in your login/startup files. Mine uses bash and in the ~/.bash_profile file I have export GDE_HELP_DIR=/usr/local/GDE M. Zuker's RNA folding code requires that there be a $GDE_HELP_DIR/ZUKER directory containing the ZUKER/*.dat files. You will probably want to put the $GDE_HELP_DIR on your path if it is a new directory. That should be it. I have gotten everythng to compile though still with a few warnings here and there that I couldn't figure out. I think everything runs ok as well, though I'm not certain about how Zuker's MFOLD is exactly supposed to work.