[gpaw-users] Installing GPAW on OS X

[Jens Jørgen Mortensen]

On 06/20/2016 04:03 PM, Toma Susi wrote:
>> On 20 Jun 2016, at 15:54, Jens Jørgen Mortensen <jensj at fysik.dtu.dk> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/17/2016 12:13 PM, Toma Susi via gpaw-users wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Jens Jørgen brought up the installation of GPAW on OS X:
>>>
>>>> On 17 Jun 2016, at 08:15, gpaw-users-request at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We discussed how to help people who are forced to do their
>>>> GPAW-development work on a MAC.  But no one wanted to document how they
>>>> installed GPAW, so we are stuck with our broken documentation.
>>> I thought I could give it a stab.
>> Thanks a lot!  See my comments below:
> My pleasure! A couple of quick replies below:
>
>>> Install Homebrew:
>>>
>>> 	/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
>>> 	echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH'
>> What does this echo-line do?
> This is a workaround for an issue Homebrew has with OS X paths. It might not be necessary for every system and there might be better ways to do it:
> https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/29843

OK, so that should be:

     echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile

or something like that?

Jens Jørgen


>
>>> Reinstall matplotlib with PyGTK for ASE-GUI (I am not 100% sure this step is necessary, but I did have to use the matplotlib-basemap tap to get this to work):
>>>
>>> 	brew install homebrew/python/matplotlib-basemap --with-pygtk
>> We can drop the matplotlib-with-pygtk-backend step.  It's not needed anymore.
> Okay, great!
>