[ase-users] No bin dir in tarball

[Ask Hjorth Larsen]

Hi

Next ASE tarball will have the bin directory.

(I guess we won't bother with the 'tools'.)

Best regards
Ask

2017-10-20 22:55 GMT+02:00 Peterson, Andrew <andrew_peterson at brown.edu>:
> 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 instructions are either out of date or have the wrong download link: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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