[phenixbb] getting phenix and coot to talk on OSX
Pavel Afonine
pafonine at lbl.gov
Wed Jul 27 10:39:50 PDT 2011
> Aside from the problem that the program is looking for the geometry
> libraries in one place and they are located in another place (that is
> a CCP4 issue), I could not get Phenix (1.7.1-743) to communicate with
> Coot. I supplied the path to coot (/Applications/coot.app) and Phenix
> started coot, but could not load the refinement information. I tested
> this during a refinement run on a 10.5.x machine, and from the
> "Results" pane for a finished job under 10.6.8. In the latter case,
> pressing "Open in Coot" does fire up the program, but the molecule and
> maps are not loaded. On the other hand, choosing "Open in PyMOL" does
> indeed display the molecule and maps.
You just described the problem that we had at two recent workshops: even
though Coot was installed in /Applications/coot.app, PHENIX could not
use it. Even providing the whole path to Coot in PHENIX GUI preferences
did not help.
Pavel.
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