<div dir="ltr">CCP4 builds and tests on a handful of Linux distributions, but the distributed binaries are, I think, built on CentOS 5.9. I agree that RHEL derivatives are "safest" for a crystallography platform.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-- David<br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 December 2013 23:15, Nathaniel Echols <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nechols@lbl.gov" target="_blank">nechols@lbl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Andreas F�rster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:docandreas@gmail.com" target="_blank">docandreas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Everyone has a favorite distro, and they all work</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I'm not sure about this - we have definitely found some distributions to be easier to support than others, even just compiling Phenix from source. �My advice would be to stick to distributions derived from RedHat (i.e. Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux) or Ubuntu, simply because we will go out of our way to ensure that the binary Phenix installers work on these. �(They also have Coot binaries.) �That doesn't mean other distributions are necessarily unsuitable, but the software support may be patchier.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I can't remember what CCP4 builds on, but I would be surprised if it doesn't support at least the same OSes.</div><div><br></div><div>-Nat</div></div></div></div>
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