How to run BRIG on Ubuntu 22?

Question

[marongiu.luigi]

I installed BRIG (circular comparisons between a large number of genomes) on Ubuntu 22.04 by downloading the container folder and then running java -jar <path>/BRIG.jar or java -Xmx1500M -jar <path>/BRIG.jar but I always get the error:

Could not read default-BRIG.xml
 because /default-BRIG.xml (No such file or directory)

even if default-BRIG.xml is in the same folder as BRIG.jar.

    $ ls -l
    total 11648
    drwxrwxr-x 2 4096 Jun 27  2011 bin
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 530477 Jun 27  2011 BRIG.jar
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 11322747 Jun 27  2011 BRIGMANUAL.pdf
    drwxrwxr-x 7 4096 Jun 27  2011 cgview
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 35146 Jun 27  2011 COPYING.txt
    -rwxrwxr-x 1 1580 Jun 27  2011 default-BRIG.xml <--
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 1778 Jan 12 11:51 errorlog.xml
    drwxrwxr-x 2 4096 Jun 27  2011 lib
    drwxrwxr-x 2 4096 Jun 27  2011 profiles
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 705 Jun 27  2011 proteins.txt
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 2477 Jun 27  2011 README.txt

How can I launch BRIG properly?

Thank you

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

it looks like a programming problem . try to launch the jar from the brig directory.

cd /path/to/brig/directory
java -jar ./BRIG.jar

[marongiu.luigi]

You were right! now it works, thank you.

Answer 2

[Reno]

Hi there, it seems you're encountering a bug with the BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG) tool. Despite loading the dataset and configuring the rings, the next button doesn't appear on the interface to proceed further. You've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling, as well as resizing the window, but the issue persists. Let's see if we can troubleshoot this problem together.