On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Ben Eisenbraun
The version of coot that is available from CCP4 is 0.6.2 (3562). This was shown on the CCP4 download page for Mac OSX, as one of the additional things you might want. The advantage of this precompiled binary is that is claims to be compatible back to 10.4.x.
There is a thread here with details on how to troubleshoot this sort of problem:
http://phenix-online.org/pipermail/phenixbb/2010-May/015207.html
Actually, this is now partially obsolete (sorry!). The Coot console output will always be the most useful in determining whether or not the programs will communicate - aside from the presence of Python, of course. I used to redirect the console output to an internal buffer in Phenix, but since this was causing freezes on some configurations, I now leave it alone. -Nat