[buster-discuss] Buster and CCP4-4.2.2

Craig Morton cmorton at svi.edu.au
Fri Oct 13 00:22:17 BST 2006


> it is actually nothing in the CCP4 binaries that are needed. It is the
> change in the MTZ file header between 4.2.2 and 5.0 that confused
> BUSTER: P212121 became 'P 21 21 21'.
> 
> And these spaces and quotes is making BUSTER misbehave (i.e. it can't
> extract the spacegroup from an MTZ file when running MTZDUMP on it).

Ah-ha. So if I trick BUSTER into using the ccp4-4.2.2 version of MTZDUMP 
but leave the rest of the distribution as ccp4-6.0.1 then it will work?

I shall give it a try and see what happens.

> We have (obviously) a version that is using happily CCP4 5.0.2 or
> 6.0.1 here -- a release still needs some work though ...

Do keep us informed!

Cheers,

Craig.

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:32:26PM +1000, Craig Morton wrote:
> 
>>Having had to reinstall ccp4-4.2.2 to get Buster working, I was 
>>wondering if someone can list *exactly* which bits of ccp4-4.2.2 are 
>>critical to keeping Buster happy.
>>
>>As I am already keeping ccp4-5 and ccp4-6 running in parallel for other 
>>reasons, I'd like to cut back the ccp4-4.2.2 installation to just those 
>>essential files while having Buster locate the rest of the libraries 
>>etc. it needs in our more current ccp4-6.0.1 installation. The saving on 
>>disk space in not having 3 concurrent ccp4 installations will be 
>>significant!
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Craig.

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