Dear Phenix BB
When I tried to install the latest binary version (1.6.1), the "install" script always stopped and dumped an error message as follows:
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/software/PHENIX/phenix-installer-1.6.1-357/bin/install-from-binary: line 347: 10964 Floating point exception
I think the "Floating point exception" is the problem here, but there isn't enough information to tell me exactly what's breaking. My best guess is that it's some kind of binary incompatibility - we switched computers for the x86_64 installer shortly after releasing version 1.6, which has caused one or two other problems on assorted flavors of Linux. (And I think SuSE has been a source of trouble in the past.) I would recommend installing from source:
It takes several hours to build, so if you have multiple processors/cores, we recommend adding "--nproc=X" (were X = number of processes to run simultaneously) to the install command to speed it up.
-Nat