Linux

I am currently trying out several graphical front ends for the molecular software package EMBOSS and I have read good reviews of kaptain. However, because there are no rpm packages of kaptain for Suse Linux 9 available, I tried to compile it myself. First problem was that the configure script couldn't find the libraries and headers for qt3:

> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

Thus I executed ./configure with the option:

Several software installations modify the PATH environment variable. There are many different file that are read during bootup that contribute to the final PATH variable. Several software installs, however, break exisiting PATH entries. Among them is the Staden package. The staden installation instruction advise to include the following lines in ~/.bashrc:

export STADENROOT=/usr/local/staden-linux-rel-1-4 . $STADENROOT/staden.profile

In order to quickfix PATH problems, you can give the full path that you need in /etc/profile.local:

I have installed the Staden package on my laptop. In order to convince other people from my lab to use it, it must be very easy to use. Ideally, they should just need to select some sequences, click and the preprocessing and assembly should be done automatically. In order to achieve that I did the following: I created new mime types for the file manager Konqueror. Konqueror needs this to realize what it should do with a file (or several of them) when you click on them. Go to: Start Menu -> Control center -> KDE Components -> File Associations.