Re: meme-chip import site fail

[James Johnson]

DREME is written in the python language and that error message is from the python interpreter not the DREME program. This means to run it with the -v flag you need to run python passing it the dreme script, like this:
python -v FULL_PATH_TO_SCRIPT/dreme -oc MEMEresult/dreme_out -p MEMEresult/seqs-centered -n MEMEresult/seqs-shuffled -png

If you don't know where dreme is installed just run "which dreme" and use the path it prints out.

To help us find the cause of this problem could you send us the traceback python produces when you run the command above? Could you also run "python --version" and tell us what version of python you are running DREME with?

[CharlesEGrant]

The python version is 2.4.3,

As noted in the MEME installation guide the MEME tools require a version of Python between 2.6 and 2.7. It may be that your system has multiple versions of Python available. By default the MEME installation will simply use the first one found in the execution path. You can specify which version of Python MEME should used with the '--with-python' option of configure. For example

./configure --prefix=/home/meme --with-python=/usr/local/python2.6.1/bin/python

After re-running 'configure' you'll need to re-run 

make clean

make install