Installation issues with hmmer2

Question

[JV]

Hi everyone,

I want to use rnammer with my favorite annotation pipeline prokka (as a supposedly more sensitive option than the default-tool barnap). The prokka documentation states that rnammer needs hmmer version 2 (NOT the current version 3), so I want to install it on my system.

The Installation-instructions seem pretty straightforward (unpack--> "make check"-->"./configure"-->"make install").

However when I run "make check", I get the message :

make: *** No rule to make target 'check';. Stop.

when I run "./configure --prefix=/home/me/test" the script seems to run without error, but when i follow up with "make install" I get the message:

mkdir -p /home/me/test/bin
mkdir -p /home/me/test/man/man1
for file in hmmalign hmmbuild hmmcalibrate hmmconvert hmmemit hmmfetch hmmindex hmmpfam hmmsearch
  do
  cp src/$file /home/me/test/bin/
  done



cp: cannot stat 'src/hmmalign': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'src/hmmbuild': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'src/hmmcalibrate': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'src/hmmconvert': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'src/hmmemit': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'src/hmmfetch': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'src/hmmindex': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'src/hmmpfam': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'src/hmmsearch': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

This happens with or without the configure-option '--prefix' and with or without admin rights.

Any hints on what to do?

[JV]

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Answer 1

[Ram]

Hi,

I see the installation instructions go:

curl -O ftp://selab.janelia.org/pub/software/hmmer/2.3.2/hmmer-2.3.2.tar.gz
tar -xzf hmmer-2.3.2.tar.gz
cd hmmer-2.3.2
./configure
make
make check

That should work, it does for me.

Answer 2

[JV]

Yes, that was it!

I had went with the instructions for the binary version by mistake. So no wonder it did not work (Stupid me!).

Your instructions (for the src-version) work perfectly.

Thanks!

[Ram]

Hi,

Glad it helped. Could you maybe accept my answer please? And I'm confused why you closed your own post using a moderation edit instead of accepting an answer :)

[JV]

Sorry, wasn't sure how this worked. I had already upvoted your answer and thought closing the thread as "solved" would be the thing to do.

I marked your answer as accepted now.

[Ram]

Thank you. Yeah, moderation --> close is for when you wanna bypass the Q&A workflow and mark a question outside the scope of the forum. The usual workflow is ask --> choose one or more of the answers as the accepted answer(s). Can be kinda confusing at times, I guess.