trouble with Install eXpress

Question

[Kurban]

Hello everyone,

I am new at linux, but I deed to compute FPKM with eXpress (http://bio.math.berkeley.edu/eXpress/tutorial.html)

So I tried to install it based on the instruction, now I got the error could not successfully install it:

kurban@kurban-X550VC:~/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64/build$ cmake ..
CMake Error: The source directory "/home/kurban/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
kurban@kurban-X550VC:~/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64/build$ ls
kurban@kurban-X550VC:~/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64/build$ cd ..
kurban@kurban-X550VC:~/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64$ ls
build  express  LICENSE  pezmaster31-bamtools-2d7685d  README  sample_data
kurban@kurban-X550VC:~/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64$ cd build/
kurban@kurban-X550VC:~/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64/build$ cmake ..
CMake Error: The source directory "/home/kurban/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
kurban@kurban-X550VC:~/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64/build$

CMake,BamTools, BOOST all are installed. and during installing BamTools, CMake works fine.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

[User 59]

I think you've downloaded the binaries and are following the install instructions for the source package.

The hint is in the fact there's an x86_64 in your path to eXpress. Source downloads generally don't specify the target platform.

Try:

~/Downloads/express-1.5.1-linux_x86_64/express

[Kurban]

Thank you and sorry for my ignorance.

Yes, it works fine.