<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/usr is the normal prefix for all modern RPMs, including the Gromacs ones.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>In principle Gromacs should be relocatable (e.g. to /usr/local), but it's entirely unsupported and I have no idea how/if it works for FFTW. The alternative is to build from source, or roll your own RPMs (check out e.g. RedHat's documentation).<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Erik<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:51 PM, vincenzo venditti wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="background-color:"><P>Daer Eric,</P><P>many thanks for your fast replay.</P><P>I downloaded the Gromacs version you suggested me, but when I run command "rpm -qpl gromacs-3.3-1x86_64.rpm seems that command want install again gromacs in /usr instead that in /usr/local. </P><P>Do you think that --prefix option of rpm is a good way to proceed?</P><P>Many thanks in advance,</P><P>Vincenzo <BR><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif"> <HR color="#a0c6e5" size="1"> From: <I>Erik Lindahl <<A href="mailto:lindahl@sbc.su.se">lindahl@sbc.su.se</A>></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>Discussion list for GROMACS users <<A href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</A>></I><BR>To: <I>Discussion list for GROMACS users <<A href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</A>></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [gmx-users] installation problem</I><BR>Date: <I>Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:17:46 +0100</I><BR><BR>x86_64 packages. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Cheers,</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Erik</DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Nov 1, 2005, at 4:53 PM, vincenzo venditti wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> <DIV class="RTE"><P>Dear Eric,</P><P>you are right: my PC run Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v4Intel EM64T 64 bit. But I downloaded the rpm file on the web page <A href="http://www.gromacs.org/download/gromacs_rpm.php">http://www.gromacs.org/download/gromacs_rpm.php</A> under SuSE Linux Enterprise Server section, I am sorry.</P><P>What rpm file do you think that I have to download?</P><P>The error message was : can not run pdb2gmx.exe</P><P>Thanks in advance,</P><P>Vincenzo<BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif"> <HR color="#a0c6e5" size="1"> <DIV></DIV>From: <I>Erik Lindahl <<A href="mailto:lindahl@sbc.su.se">lindahl@sbc.su.se</A>></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>Discussion list for GROMACS users <<A href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</A>></I><BR>To: <I>Discussion list for GROMACS users <<A href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</A>></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [gmx-users] installation problem</I><BR>Date: <I>Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:23:29 +0100</I><BR>>Hi Vincenzo,<BR>><BR>>1. Are you really certain your machine is a blade center running IBM <BR>> PowerPC 970 CPUs and not Ix86 (Intel or AMD)?<BR>>2. Exactly what is the error message you get? ("doesn't work" is <BR>>rather vague)<BR>><BR>><BR>>On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:07 AM, vincenzo venditti wrote:<BR>><BR>>>Dear all,<BR>>>I am trying to install Gromacs 3.3 on a PC running redhat linux <BR>>>enterprise v4. Then I have downloaded and installed (using "rpm - <BR>>>ivh" command) the files fftw3-3.0.1-4.ppc64.rpm and <BR>>>gromacs3.3-1.ppc64.rpm, but these files install the GROMACS <BR>>>binaries under /usr/bin (instead of /usr/local/bin), libraries in / <BR>>>usr/lib (instead of /usr/local/lib) and all the GROMACS data files <BR>>>in /usr/share/gromacs (instead /usr/local/share/gromacs). After <BR>>>installation the software doesn't work.<BR>><BR>>That's the default location of RPM software nowadays, and we've <BR>>started to comply with it :-)<BR>><BR>>Cheers,<BR>><BR>>Erik<BR>><BR>>-----------------------------------------------------------<BR>>Erik Lindahl <<A href="mailto:lindahl@sbc.su.se">lindahl@sbc.su.se</A>><BR>>Assistant Professor, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center<BR>>Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm<BR>>Phone: +46 8 5537 8564 Fax: +46 8 5537 8214<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>gmx-users mailing list<BR>><A href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</A><BR>><A href="http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users">http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users</A><BR>>Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. 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