Jackie, If I may interject: if you are a linux newbie, you might want to take a look at this: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596002619 170 pages, easy read in a week, will get you the basic of running a unix or unix-line operating system. ---- George Marselis, systems administrator Building #2, Level 4, room 4327 Computational Bioscience Research Center, KAUST Land: +966-2-808-2944, Mobile: +966-56-321-7713, Skype: project2501a On 17/4/11 5:11 PM, "Jackie Lighten" <jc807177@xxxxxx> wrote: >- > > > > >Thanks very much, John. >I would never have figured that out! >I am now officially part of the Mira clan. > >Thanks again! > >Jack > > >- > >Hi, > >I apologize, but I am a total Linux beginner and, with the MIRA >instructions presuming knowledge of basic Linux, I can¹t get the program >up and running. >I have unpacked the download, in Ubuntu, but have no idea how to copy the >bin folder to $PATH variable, and execute the program. > >Can someone please provide me with an idiots walk thru of the >installation and running of MIRA? > > > >Assuming you have sudo access. Type: > >1. sudo mv mira_directory_containing_binaries /usr/local/bin >2. sudo emacs -nw /etc/profile >3. add the line "export >PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/mira_directory_containing_binaries/bin" (w/o >quotes) somewhere >4. hit Ctrl-x, Ctrl-c to save. Type yes >5. type "source /etc/profile" >6. invoke mira's progs. > > >I would do the same with the mira-3rd party tools. > >HTH >John -- You have received this mail because you are subscribed to the mira_talk mailing list. For information on how to subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://www.chevreux.org/mira_mailinglists.html