I need to use PLINK 1.07 to perform an analysis on Copy Number Variants. To my knowledge it is the only version that has implemented the CNV functions in a stable way. As I have exclusively found version 1.07 in the literature I read on CNVs analyses.
I installed version 1.07 of PLINK as I had normally done for newer versions, which I had been able to work with just fine. However, the 1.07 PLINK version doesn't work. It raises the error: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
I suppose this is because this version is from 2009 and was designed to work with very different computers, but I do not know how to fix this. To be more precise I tested this on two different 64-bit Windows PCs, one running Windows 10 and one running Windows 11. I used Windows Subsystems for Linux (using the latest Ubuntu distro) and I got the Linux version of PLINK from this download link: https://zzz.bwh.harvard.edu/plink/dist/plink-1.07-x86_64.zip.
Here is the exact output that I get from trying to run PLINK:
~$ plink
@----------------------------------------------------------@
| PLINK! | v1.07 | 10/Aug/2009 |
|----------------------------------------------------------|
| (C) 2009 Shaun Purcell, GNU General Public License, v2 |
|----------------------------------------------------------|
| For documentation, citation & bug-report instructions: |
| http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/purcell/plink/ |
@----------------------------------------------------------@
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Please let me know what I can do to be able to run PLINK 1.07. I can provide more information if needed.
Any help or contribution will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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If you are on windows, I would suggest you to use the windows executable. If you want to run on linux, run a virtual machine with an OS version fitting your PLINK 1.07 (for example Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian 6.0).
Thank you for your reply! Yes, for now I am just using the Windows executable but I would like to make it run in a Linux environment because I just find it so much more convenient. I will try to run a virtual machine with an older Linux distro, like you said, and see if it works. Thanks for the help!