[EMBOSS] Installation help

[Michael Black]

Robin, are you referring to the JemBoss installation?  And do you  
mean a standalone installation, or a server installation?

I've never had a problem installing Jemboss/EMBOSS (and the Embassy  
packages) standalone in Jaguar, Panther and now Tiger.  PNG support  
requires some additional efforts (FINK takes care of that, for me).   
Jemboss 1.5 and EMBOSS 2.10.0 run fine on my powerbook under Tiger.

I always run the jemboos installer script to install everything  
(embassy included), and follow the Jemboss installation guide for OS  
X.  I also have it running fine on a dual-2.5GHz G5 running Panther  
10.3.9.

When you update to Tiger, be sure to check the install option for the  
new X11, and then, install the developers tools and the new X11 SDK.   
And with Tiger, do NOT point the jemboss install script to Java 1.5,  
stick with 1.4.2, or even 1.3.

Michael
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On May 25, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Robin Colgrove wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> After numerous attempts following suggestions on this list, I never  
> have been able to get the X11 version of EMBOSS to install on my  
> iBook under Mac OS X 10.3.8, but I installed and have been using  
> the command line version without trouble (and using the GUI  
> programs remotely with EMBOSS on a server and running the Mac X11  
> client locally).
>
> Next week I am going to upgrade to OSX 10.4 "Tiger", and was  
> thinking of trying a full EMBOSS install again. I would be  
> interested to hear from anyone who has done this (EMBOSS on Tiger)  
> and any tips/advice. Also, it is not clear to me whether it would  
> be best to uninstall everything and reinstall, or whether I could  
> just install the X11 parts over an existing install.
>
> thanks
>
> Robin Colgrove
> Dept of Microbiology
> Harvard Medical School
>
>

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