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and you should see something that looks like this [http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/%7Ewgscott/xtal/pymol_screenshot.png screenshot of pymol with an aqua-tkinter pmw GUI] and X-windows based molecular display window. Also shown in this screenshot is the APBS plugin in action. | and you should see something that looks like this full-size [http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/%7Ewgscott/xtal/pymol_screenshot.png screenshot of pymol with an aqua-tkinter pmw GUI] and X-windows based molecular display window. Also shown in this screenshot is the APBS plugin in action. | ||
Revision as of 23:50, 14 February 2006
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Installing MacPyMOL
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Essentials
The download is about as straightforward as it gets, and you can install it wherever it makes you happy. You need a 3 button mouse (clickable scroll wheel = middle button). Apple has finally come to its senses and designed a proper, ergonomically pleasant, scrollbutton mouse that works well with pymol and permits horizontal scrolling. Most other mice will also work well.
One word of warning: Do not install 3rd party drivers for multi-button mice if you can avoid it. These often mess with the mapping of the middle button or have other horrific side effects. Fortunately, with OS X, you should not need to.
I (Bill Scott) wrote a pymol shell script (and zsh function) to invoke this on the command line. It uses mdfind to find the executable that lives in MacPyMOL.app/Contents/MacOS/PyMOL and pass arguments to it.
Extras
You don't need any of these to use MacPyMOL. But you didn't really need a Mac either. Face it: You need these.
Mighty Mouse
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A 3-button mouse is essential. Apple's Mighty Mouse is an extra treat.
PowerMate Dial
http://www.griffintechnology.com/images/products/prod_powermate_a.jpg
The PowerMate dial works nicely with pymol.
Stereo
http://images.apple.com/powermac/images/graphicspymol20051018.jpg
The latest Macs finally support stereo in a window. There is more information in the Monitors Hardware Options section.
Installing X-windows based pymol on Mac OS X
Why would you want to do this?
- You want to run a free, guilt-free, open-source version of pymol
- You just happen to prefer the tkinter menu
- You want to use plugins, for example, the apbs plugin for free grasp-like electrostatic calculations.
Simplest Installation
Install pymol with Fink
http://pdb.finkproject.org/img/mlogo.png
By far the simplest way to install the X-windows based version of pymol on OS X is by using the fink package management system. To compile it, all you need to do is issue the command
fink install pymol-py24
(This will install python2.4 in fink, along with an X-windows based tkinter. There are also versions that permit you to install pymol to interact with python2.3 and even python2.2. Fink uses its own unix-type python installation, but you can trick pymol into using the aqua framework to get a prettier GUI after the fact.)
The fink pymol package currently exists in the unstable branch of fink, so you will either have to activate the unstable branch or make the following symbolic links:
sudo ln -s /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/pymol-py.* /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/.
You might need to create the latter directory if it doesn't already exist, i.e., issue the command
sudo mkdir -p /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
I (wgscott) have put a whole lot of further information on how to use fink to install crystallographic software on my own wiki and website, including instructions on how to install precompiled binary packages using fink.
The fink pymol package is currently maintained by Jack Howarth.
Install APBS and friends with fink
To use the electrostatics plugin, you will need APBS and its dependencies. These are also available as fink packages, and include apbs, maloc and pdb2pqr. If you have multiple processors available, you might wish to install the mpi version of apbs.
Issuing the command
fink install apbs
will install apbs and its required dependencies for you. The fink pymol package is already preconfigured to do the right thing to use apbs as a plugin.
Nucleic acids may prove problematic for the apbs plugin. If so, use the pdb2pqr command-line tool to create a pqr file manually, instead of using the plugin to generate it.
Gratuitous Eye-Candy Tweaks
You can get the fink installed X-windows based pymol-py24 to use an aqua-based tkinter menu as follows:
1. Install a Framework build of Python2.4 as follows:
mkdir src cd src curl -O http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.2/Python-2.4.2.tgz tar xvfz Python-2.4.2.tgz cd Python-2.4.2 export PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH ./configure --enable-framework make sudo make frameworkinstall
2. Remove the following empty directory by issuing the command
sudo rmdir /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.4/site-packages
3. Make a symbolic link to your fink site-packages directory:
sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.4/site-packages /sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages
This enables your new framework python to use all of the extras, like pmw, that you installed as dependencies for pymol.
4. Edit the file /sw/bin/python, and change the line
/sw/bin/python2.4 $PYMOL_PATH/modules/pymol/__init__.py "$@"
to
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python2.4 $PYMOL_PATH/modules/pymol/__init__.py "$@"
5. Now issue
/sw/bin/pymol
and you should see something that looks like this full-size screenshot of pymol with an aqua-tkinter pmw GUI and X-windows based molecular display window. Also shown in this screenshot is the APBS plugin in action.
