<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Many thanks to Mr. Lemkul and Mr. Rodrigues, their solution was, as they say, the ticket.</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ken</div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>KS Rotondi wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">All, I've looked at the site and cannot figure this out, so apologies if this is a painful often seen question. I'm trying to install dssp for use with do_dssp on an OSX.5 PPC system with the following steps, in the dssp folder:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">./DsspCompileCC<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cd..<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sudo mv dssp /usr/local<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cd /usr/local/bin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sudo ln -s /usr/local/dssp/dsspcmbi<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Having done that I can type dsspcmbi in a terminal and run the dssp program. However, running do_dssp returns<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Program do_dssp, VERSION 4.0.4<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Source code file: do_dssp.c, line: 422<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Fatal error:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">DSSP executable (/usr/local/bin/dssp) does not exist (use setenv DSSP)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My problem is compiling the dssp source does not return a 'dssp' file, rather the 'dsspcmbi' executable, as advertised. I feel I'm missing a minor last step and would appreciate any help.<br></blockquote><br>Right, so rename the dsspcmbi executable dssp and move it /usr/local/bin, nothing fancy. The other option is to export DSSP=/path/to/your/dssp<br><br>-Justin<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Thanks, Ken<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dr. K.S. Rotondi<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Departments of Chemistry, BIochemistry and Molecular Biology<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">914G LGRT<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The University of Massachusetts - Amherst<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Amherst, MA 01003<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"If there's a solution, why worry?, If there's no solution, why worry?"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">His Holiness, the Dalai Llama<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gmx-users mailing list <a href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users">http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Please search the archive at <a href="http://www.gromacs.org/search">http://www.gromacs.org/search</a> before posting!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. 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