On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Alex Theodossis

wrote:

I'm attempting to install the latest version of phenix on mac 10.5.8, using the command line installer. Installation proceeds well until towards the end, where it hangs on:

precompiling .py files

I can leave it for up to an hour without any further progress, but upon typing:

ctrl+c

The installation comes back to life and proceeds to completion. Can anyone advise as to what might be causing this and on how reliable this installation is going to be?

I haven't heard of this before; it doesn't sound like it will be easy to figure out. The practical consequence is that the Python interpreter will need to compile the modules later - and if you don't have write access to the installation directory, this will need to be done again every time you launch Phenix. Whether this gets annoying depends partly on what you're running, but also whether the problem is specific to compiling Python modules and not some bug in our installer scripts (or unreproducible freak error). There is actually a command entirely for the precompile: libtbx.py_compile_all I would recommend running this on the command line; if it takes forever, ctrl-C it and please send me the Python traceback. The other alternative is to run the graphical installer, which already has precompiled Python modules - the only drawback is the unusual location: /Applications/PHENIX-1.8.1-1168/Contents/phenix-1.8.1-1168 -Nat