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→‎System-wide or personal installation: update to use environment variables DURIN_PATH and NEGGIA_PATH
(→‎Obtaining generate_XDS.INP from this webpage: remove old comment for beamline staff; is superseded by NEGGIA_PATH and DURIN_PATH availability)
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Ask your system adminstrator to cut-and-paste the script into e.g. /usr/local/bin/generate_XDS.INP, and to make it "executable".
Ask your system adminstrator to cut-and-paste the script into e.g. /usr/local/bin/generate_XDS.INP, and to make it "executable".
If you work with Eiger data, you may want to specify the environment variables NEGGIA_PATH or DURIN_PATH, to point to the correct path on your system of the Dectris' Neggia library, or the Durin plugin, respectively. This relieves users from having to change the LIB= line of XDS.INP for every data set. You should also insert that path into the Menu / Settings / "generic library" in [[XDSGUI]] .


If you work with Eiger data, you may want to make a one-line change to the script after downloading, in order to point to the correct path on your system of the Dectris' Neggia library, or the Durin plugin, respectively. Just open the script with an editor and adjust neggia_path or durin_path ! This relieves users from having to change the LIB= line for every data set. You should also insert that path into the Menu / Settings / "generic library" in [[XDSGUI]] .
But you may also cut-and-paste the script from this webpage into a file in e.g. your home directory (or better, into your ~/bin directory if that is in your $PATH); the filename should be generate_XDS.INP. After creating the file, make it executable - e.g. if it's in your $HOME, use:
 
But you may also cut-and-paste the script from this webpage into a file in e.g. your home directory; the filename should be generate_XDS.INP. After creating the file, make it executable - e.g. if it's in your $HOME, use:
  chmod +x ~/generate_XDS.INP
  chmod +x ~/generate_XDS.INP
After that, you can just run it in a similar way as if it were installed in your $PATH:
After that, you can just run it in a similar way as if it were installed in your $PATH:
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