Extracted data information

[simon andrews (BITS)]

Dear All,

Firstly can I say thanks to those who pointed me in the right direction for
the z, gd and png libraries - our Emboss install now makes beautiful (!?)
pngs.

Unfortunately I've now come up against another problem.  I have Emboss
installed on our development server and I'm preparing a dispatch which will
send it out to about 20 remote sites.

I ran the configure with the --prefix option to install to a private
directory.  I also collected all the data files (rebase, transfac etc.) to
another directory and extracted the information from them with the relevant
programs.

My intention was to simply transfer the Emboss install directory and the
Data directory to all sites, using symlinks where necessary so that the
directory paths corresponded.

However, when testing this I have found a couple of problems;

1) Although the Emboss programs work, I can't see any of the extracted data.
For instance remap gives the error;

	   EMBOSS An error in remap.c at line 167:
	Cannot locate enzyme file. Run REBASEEXTRACT

This is despite the fact that I have both the Emboss install and the Data
directories in the same place as on the development machine (which works).

2) The other major problem is that I can no longer see my databases defined
in emboss.default.  Again, the file exists, and is in the same place as on
the development machine, but the box it is transferred to gives an empty
list from showdb.

Does anyone know where Emboss stores the information about the location of
these files?  It can't have installed anything outside the original
installation directory (wasn't installed as root), so I'm guessing that the
problem stems from the program resolving symlinks at some point.

Again I would appreciate any help people can offer, and would be glad to
report back to the group with whatever discoveries I make.

Thanks in advance

TTFN

Simon.

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Simon Andrews PhD
Molecular Biology Support
BBSRC Bioscience IT Services
e.mail: simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Tel:(+44) 1582 714900
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