Installation

This article has some little script snippets that should ease the installation of XDS and related programs (XDS-viewer, xdsstat, xdsgui). It is assumed that binaries (or links to binaries) should go to /usr/local/bin .

Linux 64 bit

Log in as root, and then:

 cd /usr/local/bin
 wget http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/generate_XDS.INP -O - | \
   sed -e s/\&nbsp\;/\ /g -e s/\&gt\;/\>/g -e s/\&lt\;/\</g -e s/amp\;//g -e s/\&quot\;/\"/g -e s/\&\#\1\6\0\;/\ /g | \
   sed '/# end of generate_XDS.INP/,$d' | awk '/^#/,/rm -f tmp1 tmp2/' > generate_XDS.INP
 chmod +x generate_XDS.INP

To get XDS,

 cd /usr/local/bin
 wget ftp://ftp.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/pub/kabsch/XDS-INTEL64_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xvf -
 ln -sf XDS-INTEL64_Linux_x86_64/* .

To get XDS-Viewer,

 cd /usr/local/bin
 wget ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xds-viewer-0.6 -O xds-viewer
 ln -sf xds-viewer xdsviewer

To get XDSSTAT,

 cd /usr/local/bin
 wget ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xdsstat-linux64.bz2 -O xdsstat.bz2
 bunzip2 xdsstat.bz2
 chmod a+x xdsstat

To get XDSGUI,

 cd /usr/local/bin
 wget ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xdsgui.rhel6.64 -O xdsgui
 chmod a+x xdsgui

If this binary does not work for you: there is also a statically linked binary called xdsgui.rhel5.64 , at the FTP site. Ubuntu 14 users: please read http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/XDSGUI#Installation if you have a problem with missing libmng2.

Linux 32 bit

Log in as root, and then:

 cd /usr/local/bin
 wget http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/generate_XDS.INP -O - | \
   sed -e s/\&nbsp\;/\ /g -e s/\&gt\;/\>/g -e s/\&lt\;/\</g -e s/amp\;//g -e s/\&quot\;/\"/g -e s/\&\#\1\6\0\;/\ /g | \
   sed '/# end of generate_XDS.INP/,$d' | awk '/^#/,/rm -f tmp1 tmp2/' > generate_XDS.INP
 chmod +x generate_XDS.INP

To get XDS,

 wget ftp://ftp.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/pub/kabsch/XDS-IA32_Linux_x86.tar.gz | tar xvf -
 ln -sf XDS-IA32_Linux_x86/* .

To get XDS-Viewer,

 wget ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xds-viewer-0.6 -O xds-viewer
 ln -sf xds-viewer xdsviewer

To get XDSSTAT,

 wget ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xdsstat-linux32.bz2 -O xdsstat.bz2
 bunzip2 xdsstat.bz2
 chmod a+x xdsstat

To get XDSGUI,

 cd /usr/local/bin
 wget ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xdsgui.rhel6.32 -O xdsgui
 chmod a+x xdsgui

If this binary does not work for you: there is also a statically linked binary called xdsgui.rhel5.32 . Ubuntu 14 users: please read http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/XDSGUI#Installation if you have a problem with missing libmng2.

Mac (Intel)

sudo su

(enter your root password)

To get generate_XDS.INP:

 cd /usr/local/bin
 curl -L -o - http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/generate_XDS.INP | \
   sed -e s/\&nbsp\;/\ /g -e s/\&gt\;/\>/g -e s/\&lt\;/\</g -e s/amp\;//g -e s/\&quot\;/\"/g -e s/\&\#\1\6\0\;/\ /g | \
   sed '/# end of generate_XDS.INP/,$d' | awk '/^#/,/rm -f tmp1 tmp2/' > generate_XDS.INP
 chmod +x generate_XDS.INP

To get XDS, for latest OS X (Mavericks):

 curl -L -o - ftp://ftp.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/pub/kabsch/XDS-OSX10.9.1_Darwin13.0.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
 ln -sf XDS-OSX10.9.1_Darwin13.0.0/* .

and for or older OS X:

 curl -L -o - ftp://ftp.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/pub/kabsch/XDS-OSX10.5.8_Darwin9.8.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
 ln -sf XDS-OSX10.5.8_Darwin9.8.0/* .

(There is also a 32bit tarfile at the same site, for OS X 10.4.11; the installation would be similar)

To get XDS-Viewer, click https://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=239755 , install in the usual way and then

sudo ln -s /Applications/XDS-Viewer.app/Contents/MacOS/xds-viewer-bin /usr/local/bin/xds-viewer

To get XDSSTAT,

 wget ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xdsstat-linux32.bz2 -O xdsstat.bz2
 bunzip2 xdsstat.bz2
 chmod a+x xdsstat

To get XDSGUI, please download from ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xdsgui.dmg and then

sudo ln -s /Applications/xdsgui.app/Contents/MacOS/xdsgui /usr/local/bin/xdsgui

Please also check XDSGUI#Installation.