Hi all, I have a set of new dependencies for base running on a CentOS 6.7 machine. The tests for PHENIX pass, but I'm still testing the GUI. It looks like most of the DIALS tests pass, but there are some that fail due to an updated Python Imaging Library. Testing will take a while longer, but I attached the modified install_base_packages.py and package_defs.py scripts for anyone who wants to try it out. Just use these in place of the ones in cctbx_project/libtbx/auto_build. I'll also clean up the scripts (e.g. remove cruft from the migration to wxPython 3.0.2, refactor some functions) once testing is complete. Aaron and I will be setting up "clean" virtual machine images for CentOS 5, 6, and 7, and Ubuntu 12.04, and 14.04, and eventually Windows 10 and maybe OS X (only Server can be virtualized) for testing the installers. The goal is to simulate what a user would get from a fresh install of an OS and test that our installers work correctly. And after each test, we can revert the virtual machine to an earlier snapshotted state. This should help in debugging some of the recent installation issues. Since our installers include the GUI, the Linux images will have their respective desktop GUIs installed (desktop version instead of server version). We thought about going with minimal server installs, but there are external dependencies, namely X11/Xorg, that we expect the users to have, and installing the desktop GUI would be the easiest way to satisfy any external dependency. Some highlights from the updates, 1) Python Imaging Library has not been updated since 2009. There is an active fork called Pillow that seems to be mostly backwards compatible. I have noticed one change in the API (replace PIL.Image.fromstring with PIL.Image.frombytes), but more testing is needed. 2) The updated version of ReportLab depends on Pillow. 3) GTK2 was not updated to GTK3 since it seems like wxPython only added support for GTK3 in 3.0.2. GTK2 is updated to the latest version. Dependencies for GTK2 (cairo, pango, etc.) are updated. An additional package, HarfBuzz, is needed. 4) libPNG was updated only to 1.5.x, not 1.6.x, because 1.6.x has some stricter checks on the image. Warnings are raised in the GUI. Eventually, this can be upgraded to 1.6.x, but I would need to reprocess all of the PNG icons to remove the offending bits. 5) libFFI was added for the updated version of glib. The updated dependencies have been built on CentOS 5, 6, and 7, and OS X 10.10, but not all the tests have been run yet. The 32-bit version of CentOS 5 is going to require some more work before the updated packages will compile. Let me know if there are any questions or suggestions. Thanks! -- Billy K. Poon Research Scientist, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road, M/S 33R0345 Berkeley, CA 94720 Tel: (510) 486-5709 Fax: (510) 486-5909 Web: https://phenix-online.org