Brief installation instructions HMMER 3.1b2; February 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------- These are quick installation instructions. For complete documentation, including customization and troubleshooting, please see the Installation chapter in the HMMER User's Guide (Userguide.pdf). ------------------------------------------------------------- Starting from a distribution "with binaries", such as hmmer-3.1b2-linux-intel-x86_64.tar.gz: uncompress: uncompress hmmer-3.1b2-xyz.tar.gz unpack: tar xf hmmer-3.1b2-xyz.tar move into new directory: cd hmmer-3.1b2-xyz The pre-compiled binaries are found in the directory ./binaries. You may copy these into a directory of your choosing, or simply add this directory to your $PATH variable. ------------------------------------------------------------- Starting from a source distribution, hmmer-3.1b2.tar.gz: uncompress: uncompress hmmer-3.1b2.tar.gz unpack: tar xf hmmer-3.1b2.tar move into new directory: cd hmmer-3.1b2 configure: ./configure build: make automated tests: make check automated install: make install ------------------------------------------------------------- HMMER is developed primarily on Linux and Mac OS/X systems. It is tested on a variety of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It is written in ANSI C99 conforming to POSIX standards. It is meant to be portable to any POSIX-compliant system with an ANSI C99 compiler, including all UNIX and Macintosh systems. A binary version is also available for Windows systems with Cygwin installed (Cygwin is optional POSIX compatibility software). ------------------------------------------------------------- Starting from a Subversion (SVN) working copy: If you have checked HMMER out from its Subversion repository, there's some additional stuff you need to do one-time-only in your new working directory: ln -s easel/aclocal.m4 aclocal.m4 autoconf (cd easel; autoconf) ------------------------------------------------------------- The HMMER development team HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus http://hmmer.org/