[Apbs-announce] Fwd: [Apbs-users] Mac OS X users: apbs can now be installed (officially) with fink

[Nathan B. <ba...@bi...>]

FYI; this fink package is likely of interest to the general APBS community.

Thanks to Bill for all his work on this!

-- Nathan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William Scott <wg...@ch...>
Date: Nov 16, 2005 11:45 PM
Subject: [Apbs-users] Mac OS X users:  apbs can now be installed
(officially) with fink
To: apb...@li...


Dear Colleagues:

If you are using OS X, this might be of interest...

The apbs program, and its dependency, maloc, can now be installed
using the package management system called Fink.  Very briefly, fink
is software package management system based on the debian linux
packaging model, but is geared specifically for GPL and open-source
software for OS X.  Fink maintains a list of available packages, and
you can choose to download the source code from the original site,
compile and install whatever you need, and it automatically takes
care of dependencies (so if for example you don't have g77 to compile
apbs, it will install that for you automatically, first, and then
install maloc and then install apbs).  A lot of nice scientific
software is available for free via fink.  The main advantage of using
this is (a) dependencies are taken care of automatically, (b) the
download, configure, compilation and installation is automated, (c)
much of the software in the "stable" branch is available as a
precompiled binary, so if you don't have 3 hours to devote to
compiling g77, it is nice to be able to just grab a binary debian
package and install it.  I've also just put in mpi-compatable
versions of maloc and apbs, and these should show up in the next day
or two.  Here is a list of scientific software currently available
for installation via fink:

http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/section.php/sci

and more details can be found here:      http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/
~wgscott/xtal




I hope this is of some use to someone.

All the best,


Bill Scott




William G. Scott

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
Sinsheimer Laboratories
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California 95064
USA




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