How to install using an .exe (program: SNeP) in a linux VM

Question

[Olivia]

Hi!

I am trying to install SNeP onto my linux VM (at least I think it is a VM - I'm quite computer illiterate - I connect to it using ssh rccuser from my linux desktop terminal). However, I have no idea how to do this, as I usually use:

conda install [program]

I can only see a download option for an .exe there, and I'm not sure how to proceed. Can I please have some advice on how to get this into my VM and installed for use? Cheers!!

Answer 1

[ATpoint]

.exe are Windows executables, you cannot use that on a Linux partition. The link contains a second download, that is probably a Linux binary. Download it, make it executable with chmod +x theBinary and then run it as any binary from the command line. Do yourself a favor and use WSL2 on Windows rather than a VM, that integrates better and does not suck off as much memory from the main Windows distro.

[Olivia]

Thank you! This worked great! For anyone in the future, I downloaded the linux file from here - SNeP 111. I then sent this to my VM. I then used chmod +x SNeP_111 in the command line to install it. To run SNeP, I started off my code with [location of the SNeP install]/SNeP_111

Thanks ATpoint, this helped my struggles!

Answer 2

[JC]

In the program site, there is a Linux binary (ubuntu 20.x), just download https://sourceforge.net/projects/snepnetrends/files/binaries/SNeP_111/download

Hopefully that works in your environment, otherwise, I don't see where is the source code to compile.

[Olivia]

Thank you JC, huge help! I missed this file. I used this file in combination with chmod +x SNeP_111