emboss for mac os x

[Alex Brown]

'morning Pradeep.

I am also a bit of unix grasshopper, but I managed to install EMBOSS on 
my G4 under Darwin. There is great set of instructions from a William 
Van Etten of the Blackstone Tecnology Group at the following web site:

http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/gdc/emboss.txt

This got me up and running. You will need to install X-windows - have a 
look at XDarwin (http://www.xdarwin.org/) or XFree86 
(http://www.xfree86.org/).

By the way - there are some good books on unix and Macs in the O'Reilly 
series, aimed at us novices. They are well worth having a look at. You 
could also look at the gnu-Darwin pages (http://gnu-
darwin.sourceforge.net/) which has loads of unix soteware (scientific 
and other) which is quite easy to install. Once you've installed X 
Windows and EMBOSS, you'll get the hang of things.

Good luck,

Alex Brown
MRC-T, London

On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 04:27  am, pradeep das wrote:

> hi all,
> i'm an almost complete unix dummy. i've tried a few times to set up an
> emboss installation on my powerbook, but have never succeded. i'm happy
> using the command line, though, so i don't need to know how to set up
> jemboss and such.
>
> each time i've tried, i go through the compilation process described in 
> the
> readme file (". /configure" followed by "make install"), but then i 
> have no
> idea what to do next. actually, i just tried this again and this time, 
> the
> 'make install' didn't complete - gave me errors.
>
> should i move the compiled files to a particular directory? do i need to
> edit the makefile (or whatever) and speficy the target directory before
> compiling?
>
> i'm a serious gcg addict (much prefer it to macvector and other programs
> like that) and i'm going to lose telnet (and thereby gcg) access at my 
> old
> university pretty soon. hence the desperation!
>
> i would appreciate any help in the matter.
>
> thanks,
> pradeep
>
> p.s. if i can get it to work, i'd be more than happy to help write a 
> thorugh
> installation guide for macs.
>
>