installing brownie

[Anne]

Hi all,

I am new to this group, as I am currently trying to get Brownie
installed to do some analysis (exciting!).

My problem is that I get various error messages when I try to install
Brownie
(the latest one is: dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022
Trace/BPT trap)

I am on Mac OS X. Could somebody who has gone through this before give
an explicit account of the steps involved in the downloading and
installation process (including which file to download, whether it
matters where you put it etc.)?

That would be of great use for me!
Thanks a lot,
Anne

[Brian O'Meara]

Hi, Anne. It works best if you just use the defaults: the installer allows you to put Brownie somewhere else, but this may require tweaking by the user to get it to work. Also, which version of OS X are you using? Brownie works on 10.6 and *I think* on 10.5.

Brian

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[Anne]

Hi Brian,

thanks for replying! I am actually on 10.5.8, so that might be the
problem?

So far, this is what I have tried and failed to do:

1. dowload BrownieV2_1_2.dmg from the google group,
2. run installer from the disk image it loads
3. this creates a folder 'Brownie' in my Applications
4. when I click on 'Brownie', it asks me for a file;
5. I choose one of the example files in Applications/Brownie
6. It opens up Terminal and gives me the following error message:

dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022
Trace/BPT trap

This error message I think tries to tell me Brownie wants to load a
library which is not there, so it might be my 10.5.8 version that is
causing this.

Is there anything else aside from upgrading to 10.6 that might help
me? (I'm guessing 10.7 is a risk too?)

Thanks!
Anne

On Feb 17, 6:00 pm, "Brian O'Meara" <bome...@utk.edu> wrote:
> Hi, Anne. It works best if you just use the defaults: the installer allows
> you to put Brownie somewhere else, but this may require tweaking by the user
> to get it to work. Also, which version of OS X are you using? Brownie works
> on 10.6 and *I think* on 10.5.
>
> Brian
>
> _______________________________________
> Brian O'Meara
> Assistant Professor
> Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

> U. of Tennessee, Knoxvillehttp://www.brianomeara.info

>
> Students wanted: Applications due Dec. 15, annually
> Postdoc collaborators wanted: Check NIMBioS' website
> Funding wanted: Want to collaborate on a grant?
>

[Brian O'Meara]

New operating systems generally can run older code, so OS 10.7 should work, once it appears. You can try three things:

1) Get a slightly older version of Brownie: http://code.google.com/p/brownie/downloads/list?can=1&q=dmg
2) See if RBrownie ( http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RBrownie/index.html ) will do what you want (this also works on Windows and Linux). It's the same core as regular Brownie, but with an R interface.
3) Try compiling it yourself: install Apple's developer tools, the GNU Scientific Library, and then make brownie .

If these aren't available/won't work, if you send me a properly-formatted Brownie file, complete with Brownie commands in a Brownie block, I can run it locally and send back the results (no authorship required: I'd just be typing "brownie datafile.nex" and emailing back the results). It's oddly easier for me to do this for occasional users than it is to keep installers of Brownie for older operating systems, Windows, etc. At some point in the future I'll be putting Brownie on something like CIPRES portal or iPlant discovery environment, but not yet.

Brian

_______________________________________
Brian O'Meara
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
http://www.brianomeara.info

Students wanted: Applications due Dec. 15, annually
Postdoc collaborators wanted: Check NIMBioS' website
Funding wanted: Want to collaborate on a grant?

[Anne]

Hi Brian,

thanks for replying with these various possibilities. In the end, I
just updated to 10.6, and it seems to work just fine now! So now I'll
be involved in discovering how it works and try to do various analyses
with it.

In any case, I hope this small discussion will contribute to questions
other 10.5 users might have!
Thanks for being helpful,
Anne

On Feb 18, 4:44 pm, "Brian O'Meara" <bome...@utk.edu> wrote:
> New operating systems generally can run older code, so OS 10.7 should work,
> once it appears. You can try three things:
>
> 1) Get a slightly older version of Brownie:http://code.google.com/p/brownie/downloads/list?can=1&q=dmg

> 2) See if RBrownie (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RBrownie/index.html) will do what

> you want (this also works on Windows and Linux). It's the same core as
> regular Brownie, but with an R interface.
> 3) Try compiling it yourself: install Apple's developer tools, the GNU
> Scientific Library, and then make brownie .
>
> If these aren't available/won't work, if you send me a properly-formatted
> Brownie file, complete with Brownie commands in a Brownie block, I can run
> it locally and send back the results (no authorship required: I'd just be
> typing "brownie datafile.nex" and emailing back the results). It's oddly
> easier for me to do this for occasional users than it is to keep installers
> of Brownie for older operating systems, Windows, etc. At some point in the
> future I'll be putting Brownie on something like CIPRES portal or iPlant
> discovery environment, but not yet.
>
> Brian
>
> _______________________________________
> Brian O'Meara
> Assistant Professor
> Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

> U. of Tennessee, Knoxvillehttp://www.brianomeara.info
>
> Students wanted: Applications due Dec. 15, annually
> Postdoc collaborators wanted: Check NIMBioS' website
> Funding wanted: Want to collaborate on a grant?
>