Following up on this, since at least a couple of other people have reported the same problem: apparently the solution is to run the installer with 'sudo', regardless of destination. I still have no idea why the installer breaks, or why sudo fixes it, but at least it should be usable on Ubuntu. -Nat On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Nathaniel Echols wrote:

Could you please send me the full binary.log? The excerpt below doesn't tell me what actually broke. Phenix certainly should install on Ubuntu, and I'm pretty sure it runs okay on 12.04 (except for a missing jpeg library, which is easily added); I will try to confirm this on one of our systems on Tuesday.

thanks, Nat

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Alastair Fyfe wrote:

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Hi, I've installed previous phenix builds on ubuntu without problem, but with both 1.8.1-1168 and dev-1269 installers on 12.04, the command

"./install --prefix=/home/afyfe"

ends with

"Error configuring: see /home/afyfe/phenix-installer-dev-1269/build-binary/intel-linux-2.6/svr/log/binary.log for details"

and the tail of the binary.log file suggests: -- Creating files in build directory: "/home/afyfe/phenix-dev-1269/build/intel-linux-2.6" dispatcher_include_template.sh dispatcher_head.sh Please re-configure from scratch your cctbx_build:cd cctbx_build; /your/path/to/python ../cctbx_project/libtbx/configure.py [options] [modules] --- I don't see a cctbx_build directory under either the installer or destination directories. Any clues/suggestions? many thanks, Alastair _______________________________________________ phenixbb mailing list [email protected] http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb