Installation Issues

[Gracy Buckholtz]

Hello, 

I am new to dDocent and I am running into issues during the installation process. I am trying to download dDocent onto my Compute Canada account which is a  high-performance compute system. I do not have root access and can only install things to my local user profile. 

The first error I am getting is:

 make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

/home/<my_username>/dDocent-2.9.4/install_dDocent_requirements: line 40: cd: bin: No such file or directory

There are many that follow but I do not know if their cause is related to this first one or something else going wrong later on. 

I believe the issue may have something to do with the step which reads "simply add ~/dDocent to the end of the existing string." Without any additions, my .bash_profile looks like this:

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

        . ~/.bashrc

fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin

export PATH

When I have just added ~/dDocent to the end of the PATH= string the problem has not been solved. I have tried other iterations like adding :$HOME/dDocent:$HOME/dDocent-2.9.4 or even just $HOME/dDocent instead of ~/dDocent but nothing seems to have an effect. 

I have confirmed that cmake is installed. For the actual installation, I have been running this command in my home directory:

bash install_dDocent_requirements <your path directory> 

My home directory contains the dDocent directory that the instructions tell you to create as well as dDocent-2.9.4 which is what downloads when I run the curl and tar commands specified at the top of the manual: 

curl -L -O https://github.com/jpuritz/dDocent/archive/v2.9.4.tar.gz

tar xvzf v2.9.4.tar.gz

I have been specifying ~/dDocent as my path directory during the bash install step but this may be incorrect. 

As I was troubleshooting this I had run the bash install command a few times specifying that the install_dDocent_requirmenents is in the dDocent-2.9.4 directory. This would begin to run but then throw the same error as every other time. 

Has anyone else experienced this and found a solution? I am currently not sure if the issue is in the PATH step, the bash install step, or if I simply need to get different permission controls set up on my account. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If more information is needed I am happy to post it. 

Thank you, 

Gracy 

[a.w...@uni-bayreuth.de]

Hi, I followed the conda install instructions for dDocent on a 'normal' Linux systemm (no HPC) to circumvent such issues. Worked great!

http://www.ddocent.com/bioconda/

Best,