Hi,
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:42:05PM -0500, Jason Swails wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Mengjuei Hsieh <mengjueh.uci.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I totally agree with Jason, in fact, I just setup a unbuntu in my
> > virtualbox vm (ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64). Several things I want
> > to address are:
> > 1) I have to do
> > apt-get install csh flex xorg-dev gfortran g++ bison
> g++ is not included in 9.10?
Jason, can you give the details for your ubuntu installation-
version and apt-gets again ?
Of course, my advice is for a full OS installation.
> > before I start to work on src/configure
> > 2) Ubuntu's sh hates src/configure, I HAVE TO CHANGE IT TO
> > /bin/bash TO MAKE IT WORK.
Jason, Mengjuei, what are your results for ll /bin/sh ?
Dec 09 1:33:06pm ubuntu 24> / ll /bin/sh
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-04-13 15:03 /bin/sh -> dash
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
In Ubuntu 6.10, the default system shell, /bin/sh,
was changed to dash from bash.
The major reason to switch the default shell was efficiency.
Sigh, they didnt learn anything from Bill Gates let alone Don Knuth.
> That was the extent of the adds/mods I had to make to my machine to
> get things to work. They're fast, easy fixes. The only question is if
> there is any convenient place to put them that users would actually
> look at. Perhaps we could add those packages as prerequisites in the
> amber installation instructions in the manual, (which should be
> enough?). I could make those changes easily enough if it was desired.
> Also, ubuntu's sh seems overly picky about commands that don't look
> specific to bash. In the new MMPBSA scripts we are writing in python,
> we use system calls (to call ptraj and sander) that use /bin/sh but
> don't work on Ubuntu until sh is redirected to /bin/bash. I would
> also not be surprised if several tests (the ones written in sh) failed
> because of it.
This is a classic FAQ entry.
I'll add a link to the platform pages in the amber faq.
Our main page could use a table of contents; its 20 pagedowns
from top to bottom with a 16 size font.
Thanks for the note,
Scott
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