Git install scripts

For windows users

1. Install Git for Windows.

Use the default settings in all options.

1. Navigate in your computer to: C:/Users/YOURNAME/Documents (Note, always use forward slashes "/" for compatibility)
2. Right click in folder -> Select: Git Gui -> Clone Existing Repository
3. Source Location: https://github.com/Pymol-Scripts/Pymol-script-repo.git
4. Target Directory: C:/Users/YOURNAME/Documents/Pymol-script-repo

You now have all the scripts available in your directory.

You now have to add the "Pymol-script-repo" directory to the PyMOL search path.

1. Open notepad
2. Write (Remember forward slashes)

import sys
sys.path.append('C:/Users/YOURNAME/Documents/Pymol-script-repo')

Save under: C:/Users/YOURNAME/pymolrc.pym (Set: "Save as type" to "All files")

Now start PyMOL, and test in PyMOL.

print sys.path
import colorbydisplacement
help(colorbydisplacement)

For Ubuntu/Mint users

1. Install git

sudo apt-get install git

1. Navigate to desired folder: cd /home/YOURNAME/Software/pymol

git clone https://github.com/Pymol-Scripts/Pymol-script-repo.git

You now have all the scripts available in: /home/YOURNAME/Software/pymol/Pymol-script-repo

You now have to add the "Pymol-script-repo" directory to the PyMOL search path.

gedit ~/.pymolrc

Write

import sys
sys.path.append('/home/YOURNAME/Software/pymol/Pymol-script-repo')

Save and exit

Now start PyMOL, and test in PyMOL.

print sys.path
import colorbydisplacement
help(colorbydisplacement)

Do you want to contribute with a script?

Information how to contribute scripts to the repository. It's easy!
http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/git_authors