[ase-users] No bin dir in tarball

[Peterson, Andrew]

I also noticed something similar along these lines. I think the manual
instructions are either out of date or have the wrong download link:

https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase/install.html#installation-from-source

The tarball at the link in that section (coming from pypi) has no "bin"
directory (nor "tools" directory, but I guess that's going away?). The
instructions in that same section are to point your PATH variable to the
"bin" directory, which doesn't exist. So it sounds like the manual
installation instructions need to be updated to reflect the new way that
the exectuble files are intended to be handled.

The quickest solution might be instead to point to the tar.gz link from
gitlab? This has the bin and tools directories included:

https://gitlab.com/ase/ase/repository/3.15.0/archive.tar.gz

Andy



On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Ask Hjorth Larsen via ase-users <
ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk> wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> 2017-10-07 16:27 GMT+02:00 Roger Mason via ase-users
> <ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Working through the installation instructions
> > (https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase/install.html) under 'Installation from
> > Source' it says
> >
> > $ tar -xf ase-3.15.0.tar.gz
> > $ ln -s ase-3.15.0 ase
> >
> > then later it says
> >
> > 'Add ~/ase to your PYTHONPATH environment variable and add ~/ase/bin to
> > PATH.'
> >
> > But the unpacked tarball does not contain a 'bin' directory.  The cloned
> > git repo _does_ contain a bin drectory.
>
> The standard installation procedure creates and installs the 'ase'
> script in a bin-directory.  Ordinarily the 'ase' script did not exist
> at all unless ASE was installed, but this was annoying for those who
> develop/test from the source-dir without building/installing.  Thus a
> 'fake' ase script has been included in ase/bin.
>
> Is there a reason why you noticed/need this?
>
> Best regards
> Ask
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Roger
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