Subject: Re: sparky on LINUX, pipe2ucsf on Windows
From: Thomas Goddard
Date: Nov 14 11:04 AM
Next: 184
Hi Claudia,
I suspect that adding
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/goddard/temp/libstdc++.so.5
to your Sparky distribution in directory
sparky/lib
will allow Sparky to run on your Linux system. I think the trouble is
that your new Linux does not have this older version of the standard C++
library.
On Windows you have to run pipe2ucsf from a Command Prompt window. You
cannot just double click on it since it requires command line arguments.
It does not have a graphical user interface. To get a Command Prompt window
on Windows XP go to Start / All Programs / Accessories / Command Prompt.
You then would use a command like:
C:Progra~1sparkybinpipe2ucsf myfile.pipe myfile.ucsf
assuming you have Sparky installed in C:Program Filessparky.
Tom
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:10:47 +0000
From: Claudia Blindauer C.Blindauer@...
To: sparky@...
Subject: sparky on LINUX
Hello there,
after being a happy Sparky user under windows for years (and happily
spreading its use in the course of this activity), I have just
installed sparky including its conversion routines onto a freshly
installed LINUX box. It has the correct library files installed (I
looked for the ones that are described in the manual, version 6
ones, and they are there), but when I try to start anything, be it
sparky or eg pipe2ucsf, it tells me error while loading shared
libraries: libstdc++.so.5: Cannot open...no such file or directory.
And of course there is indeed no such file, as we have version 6 for
all these C-related files. I dont know which part of the programs
is looking for these libraries, and dont know how to find out, and
dont know how to persuade the program to go looking for the proper
files. In desperation I have tried to cheat and just renamed the
version 6 file to the version 5 file, but that conceivably did not
get me much further.
I equally dont seem to be able to get the pip2ucsf command to work
under windows (XP). Whatever I try, all that ever happens is a
brief flash of a black command window, and no new files are
generated. And of course widows doesnt even start to tell me what
does not work, and it is impossible to see what it actually tries
to do.
In either case, I cant find anything on the web or on mailing
lists. What I really need to do desperately is actually just the
conversion - no matter under which operating system (I can happily
continue to use sparky under windows for the time being - but I need
some data to look at, and to my dismay we have recently started to
work on Varian machines, and I just cant get the data into a
Sparky-readable format.).
Have you come across this problem before ?
best wishes,
Claudia
Dr. Claudia Blindauer
Royal Society Olga Kennard Fellow
University of Warwick
Department of Chemistry
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Coventry
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