Music Ports

Question

[johan.lindberg.ki]

I was using MuSiC late last year with VirtualBox/Ubuntu 10.4 on a Fedora machine. I asked back then and was told that a yum/rpm port was going to be released. I wonder if this is something that is available or if I should continue to use virtualBox?

best regards

// Johan

[Biomonika (Noolean)]

What about explaining how MuSiC is related to bioinformatrics for ones not already involved in this?

[Chris Miller]

Start here: http://gmt.genome.wustl.edu/genome-music/current/ http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2012/07/02/gr.134635.111

Answer 1

[Chris Miller]

My understanding is that it's an enormous pain in the butt to get MuSiC running on anything but Ubuntu at the moment, due to a host of dependencies. The devs are chipping away at this problem, but for now, your best bet is probably to stick with the VM.

[Cyriac Kandoth]

I recently put up a list of instructions here: Installation of the MuSiC suite on unsupported linux distributions

Answer 2

[Ryan Thompson]

Just about any program that runs on Ubuntu should also run on Fedora. They're both Linux-based. Getting it properly installed without the help of the package manager can be a challenge, though. Surely there must be instructions for installing from source?

[Neilfws]

There was a recent question here about the MuSiC source code: Music Source Code

Answer 3

[johan.lindberg.ki]

Thanks for the replies. We also tried previously to get it running on Fedora but encountered all sorts of problems. We ended up using VM and I think this is (judging from the replies) at the moment the best way (in terms of hours) to just get it up and running on our server.