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+This article has information that should ease the installation of XDS and related programs like ([[XDS-viewer]], [[xdsstat]], [[XDSGUI|xdsgui]]). Generally, it is easiest if binaries (or links to binaries) go to /usr/local/bin . This means that you should do this as the administrator (root), or have sudo rights (Mac, and some Linux distros). But it is mostly possible to install without administrative privileges - the exception is XDSGUI on Linux which may require installation of certain libraries by the administrator.
-This article has some little script snippets that should ease the installation of XDS and related programs like ([[XDS-viewer]], [[xdsstat]], [[XDSGUI|xdsgui]]). It is assumed that binaries (or links to binaries) should go to /usr/local/bin . This means that you should do this as the administrator (root), or have sudo rights (Mac, and some Linux distros).
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 <pre>
   cd /usr/local/bin
-  wget -O- https://xds.mr.mpg.de/XDS-INTEL64_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xzvf -
+  wget --no-check-certificate -O- https://xds.mr.mpg.de/XDS-gfortran_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xzvf -
- ln -sf XDS-INTEL64_Linux_x86_64/* .
+ ln -sf XDS-gfortran_Linux_x86_64/* .
+# until 2025-05-02 the XDS tarfile for Linux had a different name:
+# wget --no-check-certificate -O- https://xds.mr.mpg.de/XDS-INTEL64_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xzvf -
+# ln -sf XDS-INTEL64_Linux_x86_64/* .
 </pre>
-In case the above website is unavailable, there is a [https://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xds backup site].
+In case the above website is unavailable, there is a [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/xds backup site].
+If you don't have root rights, replace /usr/local/bin by $HOME/bin in the first line above, and make sure that $HOME/bin is in your $PATH (google "linux set path" or similar).
+If you want to process data from the [[Eiger]] detector: see below for plugins that allow XDS to read the .h5 files. Similarly for gzip-ed CBF files as mostly collected at EMBL Hamburg.
 === other programs: [[XDS-Viewer]], [[XDSSTAT]], [[XDSCC12]], [[XDSGUI]], [[XSCALE_ISOCLUSTER]], [[spot2pdb]], [[generate_XDS.INP]]  ===
 ... can be downloaded from https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/ . A simple way to obtain them is to create an empty folder, "cd" to that folder and then
-  wget -N https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/get_folder.sh
+  wget --no-check-certificate -N https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/get_folder.sh
   chmod +x get_folder.sh
   ./get_folder.sh
@@ Line 33: / Line 30: @@
 As root, the script copies the programs into /usr/local/bin/linux_bin, and links them to /usr/local/bin. As a normal user, they are downloaded to $HOME/bin/linux_bin, and linked to your $HOME/bin. In the latter case, make sure that $HOME/bin is in your $PATH.
-The Qt5 graphics library is now the default for xdsgui and xds-viewer. Qt4 versions are available as xdsgui.qt4 and xds-viewer.qt4, for old Linux distributions (and for use with x2goclient, which would otherwise need [https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:development:glx-xlib-workaround special action] for Qt5 binaries).
+Although CCP4 is not required by XDS, XSCALE or XDSGUI, some of the programs (namely XDSSTAT, and MTZ file creation in XDSCONV) need its tools (F2MTZ, ...) or libraries, or run its programs (POINTLESS and COOT can be run from XDSGUI). Therefore, CCP4 should be installed.
 === tools and helper programs for [[generate_XDS.INP]] and [[XDSGUI]], and libraries ===
@@ Line 39: / Line 36: @@
 * helper programs for [[XDSGUI]] are listed and discussed at [[XDSGUI#Dependencies]]. Nota bene: XDSGUI needs [[generate_XDS.INP]] unless you already have a working XDS.INP.
-Since XDSGUI depends on graphics packages that may need to be installed, you can check the xdsgui binary with
+Since XDSGUI depends on graphics packages that may need to be installed (by root), you can check the xdsgui binary with
   ldd `which xdsgui` | grep found
-and that should show you the libraries it it didn't find. Your friendly system administrator will then work out the specific commands to install those libraries.
+and that should show you the libraries it '''didn't''' find. Your friendly system administrator knows the specific commands to install those libraries.
+N.B. this may list libpng15.so for the latest XDSGUI (compiled May 2023), but you can ignore that!
 For RedHat-type distributions, that would typically be e.g.
@@ Line 53: / Line 52: @@
    sudo apt-file update
-Ubuntu 18.04: if libQtOpenGL.so.4 is missing, use <code>sudo apt install libqt4-opengl</code>.
+On Ubuntu, XDSGUI may require <code>sudo apt install libxcb-xinerama0</code>
-Ubuntu 20.04: if libQtOpenGL.so.4 is missing (for the Qt4 binary of [[XDSGUI]]), use
- sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:rock-core/qt4
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt install libqt4-opengl
-If the Qt5 libraries are missing, use <code>sudo apt install libqt5gui5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5opengl5</code>.
-On CentOS7, this would be <code>yum -y install qt5-qtbase-gui qt5-qtbase</code> .
 <code>xxdiff</code> is likely available for your distribution - google for it, or try e.g.
@@ Line 67: / Line 58: @@
 on RHEL6/CentOS6/SL6 systems, or
   apt install xxdiff
-on Ubuntu. If Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't find it, use the latest from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xxdiff/
+on Ubuntu. If Ubuntu doesn't find it, use the latest from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xxdiff/
 An <code>xxdiff</code> binary that runs on CentOS7 (RHEL7, SL7) is provided by the <code>get_folder.sh</code> script.
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 For [[Eiger]] data processing, a h5dump binary (version 1.10 req'd for HDF5 data from DLS) and <code>H5ToXDS</code> is installed by the <code>get_folder.sh</code> script into /usr/local/bin. If the script is not used, <code>H5ToXDS</code> should be installed as [[Eiger|explained]], and <code>h5dump</code> should be installed by e.g. <code>yum -y install hdf5</code> (Ubuntu: <code>apt install hdf5-tools</code>) - but make sure that h5dump is version 1.10 or higher when processing HDF5 data from DLS.
-Furthermore, you want the [https://www.dectris.com/company/news/newsroom/news-details/process-eiger-data-with-xds-fast Neggia] library (does not work for HDF5 data from DLS) or the [https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/durin Durin plugin]. These may be installed through the <code>get_folder.sh</code> script, in <code>/usr/local/lib64</code>.
+The LIB= feature for HDF5 files requires either the [https://www.dectris.com/company/news/newsroom/news-details/process-eiger-data-with-xds-fast Neggia] library (does not work for HDF5 data from DLS) or the [https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/durin Durin plugin]. These may be installed through the <code>get_folder.sh</code> script, in <code>/usr/local/lib64</code>. For using LIB= with .gz files, there is the xds-zcbf plugin. All plugins can also be found in [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin the Linux installation directory.]
 == macOS ==
-=== [[XDS]] package ===
+Become familiar with the concept and ways to run commands as "root" (administrator) - google "mac osx become root". Installation tasks that are run in a Terminal window require root privileges if the programs and their links are written to /usr/local/bin.
+Therefore, if /usr/local/bin does not yet exist, prepare the following steps by opening the Terminal window, and then
+ sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin
+As an alternative that does not require root for installation, one may create a directory $HOME/bin and use that for the programs and links. Also, this requires modification of the $PATH, by a one-time
+ mkdir $HOME/bin
+ echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin' >> ~/.zprofile
+=== [[XDS]] package for Intel Macs ===
 If you are an academic user,
-  echo you may have to "sudo su" first, to obtain administrator permissions!
+  # obtain root privileges (it will ask for your password):
+ sudo su
+ if [ ! -e /usr/local/bin ]; then mkdir /usr/local/bin; fi
   cd /usr/local/bin
   curl -L -o - https://xds.mr.mpg.de/XDS-OSX_64.tar.gz | tar xzvf -
   ln -sf XDS-OSX_64/* .
+ # release root permissions:
+ exit
+(If you don't have root privileges and run in $HOME/bin, only the curl and ln commands have to be run)
 Starting with macOS Catalina, you may also need
-  xattr -dr XDS-OSX_64/*
+  sudo xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine XDS-OSX_64
 if you get a security error popup (google "xattr com.apple.quarantine catalina").
-Then make sure that the binaries are in the search path for executables, as explained in https://xds.mr.mpg.de/html_doc/downloading.html .
+Then make sure that the binaries are in the search path for executables, as also explained in https://xds.mr.mpg.de/html_doc/downloading.html .
-==== considerations for a macOS machine with Apple M1 processor ====
+If you want to process .h5 files written by Eiger detectors on a Mac with Intel CPU, use the [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/durin-plugin.so Durin plugin for Intel Mac processors] (source code [https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/durin available]) or the [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/dectris-neggia.so Dectris-Neggia plugin for Intel Mac processors] (source code [https://github.com/dectris/neggia available]). The latter may be faster, but does not work on data collected at Diamond Light Source. The former should in principle work for all HDF5 data. See [[Installation#other_programs:_XDS-viewer,_XDSSTAT,_XDSCC12,_XDSGUI,_XSCALE_ISOCLUSTER,_generate_XDS.INP|below]] for installation of these .so files.
-Change the above <code>curl</code> and <code>ln</code> commands to
+If you want to process *.cbf.gz files on a Mac with Intel CPU, you may get faster processing with the [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/xds-zcbf.so xds-zcbf plugin for Intel Mac processors] ([https://git.embl.de/nikolova/xds-zcbf source code]).
- curl -L -o - https://xds.mr.mpg.de/XDS-Apple_M1.tar.gz | tar xzvf -
- ln -sf XDS-Apple_M1/* .
-If you want to process .h5 files written by Eiger detectors, use the [https://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/mac_bin/durin-plugin-Apple-arm64.so Durin plugin for Apple ARM64 processors] ([https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/durin source code]).
+See [[Installation#other_programs:_XDS-viewer,_XDSSTAT,_XDSCC12,_XDSGUI,_XSCALE_ISOCLUSTER,_generate_XDS.INP|below]] for installation of these .so files.
-A message like "Note: The following floating-point exceptions are signalling: IEEE_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO IEEE_UNDERFLOW_FLAG" may be printed after running XDS or XSCALE. This is harmless.
+==== XDS package for Macs with Apple M processors ====
-=== Prerequisites (Xcode, CCP4) for [[generate_XDS.INP]], [[XDSGUI]] and other programs ===
+The Intel Mac XDS programs also work on the Apple Silicon machines, but the plugin libraries (see below) for e.g. reading data from Eiger detectors don't, and the native binaries are faster.
+Thus, change the above <code>curl</code> and <code>ln</code> commands to
+ # become root (it will ask for your password):
+ sudo su
+now enter the password, and then
+ if [ ! -e /usr/local/bin ]; then mkdir /usr/local/bin; fi
+ cd /usr/local/bin;
+ curl -L -o - https://xds.mr.mpg.de/XDS-Apple_M1.tar.gz | tar xzvf - ;
+ ln -sf XDS-Apple_M1/* . ;
+ exit
+As explained above, you may need
+ sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine XDS-Apple_M1/*
+if you get a security-related popup saying that Apple cannot verify the software.
+If you want to process .h5 files written by Eiger detectors, use the [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/durin-plugin-Apple-arm64.so Durin plugin for Apple ARM64 processors] (source code [https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/durin available]) or the [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/dectris-neggia-Apple-arm64.so Dectris-Neggia plugin for Apple ARM64 processors] (source code [https://github.com/dectris/neggia available]). The latter may be faster, but does not work on data collected at Diamond Light Source. The former should in principle work for all HDF5 data.
+If you want to process *.cbf.gz files, you may get faster processing with the [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/xds-zcbf-Apple-arm64.so xds-zcbf plugin for Apple ARM64 processors] ([https://git.embl.de/nikolova/xds-zcbf source code]).
+See [[Installation#other_programs:_XDS-viewer,_XDSSTAT,_XDSCC12,_XDSGUI,_XSCALE_ISOCLUSTER,_generate_XDS.INP|below]] for installation of these .so files.
+=== Prerequisites (Xcode, CCP4, xxdiff) for [[generate_XDS.INP]], [[XDSGUI]] and other programs ===
 [[generate_XDS.INP]] requires the [https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ Xcode command line tools] to be installed (free of charge): open a Terminal window, and enter <code>sudo xcode-select --install</code> (the download has a size of about 750MB; the downloader is much too pessimistic about the time it takes).
-Although CCP4 is not required by XDS itself, some of the programs (XDSSTAT, and MTZ file creation in XDSCONV, POINTLESS and COOT) use CCP4 tools or libraries. Therefore, CCP4 should be installed. Open a Terminal and check the existence of the file .zprofile , and its content:<pre>
+Although CCP4 is not required by XDS, XSCALE or XDSGUI, some of the programs (namely XDSSTAT, and MTZ file creation in XDSCONV) need its tools (F2MTZ, ...) or libraries, or run its programs (POINTLESS, COOT can be run from XDSGUI). Therefore, CCP4 should be installed. Open a Terminal and check the existence of the file .zprofile , and its content:<pre>
 kay@Kays-MacBook-Air-2018 ~ % ls -l .zprofile
 -rw-r--r--  1 kay   staff  107  7 Mär 09:41 .zprofile
@@ Line 112: / Line 136: @@
 source $HOME/.profile
 # Added by CCP4 package manager:
-. '/Applications/ccp4-7.1/bin/ccp4.setup-sh'
+. '/Applications/ccp4-8.0/bin/ccp4.setup-sh'
+# or
+. '/Applications/ccp4-9/bin/ccp4.setup-sh'
 </pre>If the file does not exist, create it - the easiest way is:
 <pre>
-echo . /Applications/ccp4-7.1/bin/ccp4.setup-sh >> $HOME/.zprofile
+echo . /Applications/ccp4-8.0/bin/ccp4.setup-sh >> $HOME/.zprofile
+# or
+echo . /Applications/ccp4-9/bin/ccp4.setup-sh >> $HOME/.zprofile
+# depending on which CCP4 version you have installed
 </pre>The <code>get_folder.sh</code> script (below) checks the CCP4 setup, and creates the necessary files if needed.
 Only Terminal windows that are opened afterwards will have access to the CCP4 programs!
-Become familiar with the concept and ways to run commands as "root" - google "mac osx become root". All the installation tasks that are run in a Terminal window require root privileges, since some of the programs and their links are written to /usr/local/bin. (As an alternative that does not require root for installation, one may create a directory $HOME/bin and use that for the programs and links. That would also require modification of the $PATH, by a one-time <code>echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin' >> ~/.profile; echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin' >> ~/.zprofile</code>)
+Lastly, it is useful (for e.g. XDSGUI) to install <code>xxdiff</code> . This is available from https://furius.ca/xxdiff/ , but is also [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/xxdiff-4.0b1.osx.dmg here]. I had to go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy and add <code>xxdiff</code> to the programs with full disk access. Therefore, the DMG file is downloaded by the get_folder.sh or get_folder_silicon.sh script, but not installed by the script - pls do that manually.
-So, prepare the following steps by opening the Terminal window, and then
- sudo su               # this will make you root, and ask for your password
- mkdir /usr/local/bin  # only if /usr/local/bin was not created before
 === other programs: [[XDS-viewer]], [[XDSSTAT]], [[XDSCC12]], [[XDSGUI]], [[XSCALE_ISOCLUSTER]], [[generate_XDS.INP]]  ===
 ... can be downloaded from https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/ . A simple way to obtain them is is to open a Terminal, and type:
   sudo su
-which asks for the password and gives you administrator permissions. Then,
+which asks for the password and gives you administrator permissions. Then, for Intel Macs,
   # any folder would do; here we use /usr/local/bin/mac_bin
   mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/mac_bin
@@ Line 136: / Line 163: @@
   chmod +x get_folder.sh
   ./get_folder.sh
+For Silicon Macs,
+ # any folder would do; here we use /usr/local/bin/mac_bin
+ mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/mac_bin
+ cd /usr/local/bin/mac_bin
+ curl -O -R https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/get_folder_silicon.sh
+ chmod +x get_folder_silicon.sh
+ ./get_folder_silicon.sh
+After that, release root privileges:
+ exit
 If you want to update the programs some time later, just run these commands again.
+If curl prints a certificate-related error message, use the -k or --insecure option.
-In order to enable [[Eiger]] data processing, the <code>get_folder.sh</code> script
+In order to enable [[Eiger]] data processing, the <code>get_folder.sh</code> (or <code>get_folder_silicon.sh</code>) script
-# copies Dectris' Neggia library and DLS's Durin library into <code>/usr/local/lib64</code> (see above for Neggia and Durin on M1 Macs; the script does not yet handle this automatically)
+# copies Dectris' Neggia library and DLS's Durin library into <code>/usr/local/lib64</code> . NOTE that the names of the native libraries for the Apple Silicon Macs ends with *-Apple-arm64.so . On Silicon Macs you can either use the Intel binaries for XDSGUI and XDS, or the Silicon binaries - the latter are recommended. You could in principle mix them but then you have to be careful with what you enter in the LIB= line of XDS.INP; and what you enter in Menu/Preferences/Paths/generic library of XDSGUI.
 # copies [https://www.globalphasing.com GlobalPhasing's] <code>hdf2mini-cbf</code> into <code>/usr/local/bin</code>, but under the name <code>H5ToXds</code> (consider getting a [https://www.globalphasing.com/autoproc/ autoPROC] license!)
 # copies <code>h5dump</code> [https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.12/hdf5-1.12.1/bin/unix/hdf5-1.12.1-Std-macos11_64-clang.tar.gz] into <code>/usr/local/bin</code>
-A [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/XDS-Viewer-macOS10.13.dmg 10.13] Qt5 version of XDS-viewer (compiled by T. Hauß) works on macOS Catalina, and is installed by <code>get_folder.sh</code>. Older Macs need [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/XDS-Viewer-0.6.dmg this version]; newer macOS should install [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/XDS-Viewer-macOS10.15.dmg 10.15]. For XDSGUI, the [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/xdsgui_qt4.dmg Qt4 version] is still the default, but a [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/xdsgui_qt5.dmg Qt5 version] is available (but needs Qt5 libraries!).
+A [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/XDS-Viewer-macOS10.13.dmg 10.13] Qt5 version of XDS-viewer (compiled by T. Hauß) works on macOS Catalina, and is installed by <code>get_folder.sh</code>. Older Macs need [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/XDS-Viewer-0.6.dmg this version]; newer macOS should install [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/XDS-Viewer-macOS10.15.dmg 10.15].
-Lastly, it is useful (for e.g. XDSGUI) to install <code>xxdiff</code> from http://furius.ca/downloads/xxdiff/releases/macosx/ . I had to go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy and add <code>xxdiff</code> to the programs with full disk access.
+For XDSGUI, you have a choice between the version for Intel Macs and that for Silicon Macs. Both do work on Silicon Macs, except for the plugin libraries - for these, the correct version (ending with -Apple-arm64.so) must be used together with xdsgui_mac_silicon.
 === Troubleshooting ===
@@ Line 165: / Line 202: @@
 == Windows ==
-The programs of the [[XDS]] package as well as [[XDSGUI]], [[XDSSTAT]], [[XDSCC12]] and so on may be run on 64bit Windows 10 within the [https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/wsl/install-win10 Linux Subsystem for Windows] (WSL, or preferably WSL2). This (easily!) installs e.g. an [https://ubuntu.com/wsl Ubuntu] environment, which supports the apt package manager, so in principle any software available for Ubuntu may be installed (or other distros, see [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/05/11/new-distros-coming-to-bashwsl-via-windows-store/]).
+The programs of the [[XDS]] package as well as [[XDSGUI]], [[XDSSTAT]], [[XDSCC12]] and so on may be run on 64bit Windows 10/11 within the [https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/wsl/install-win10 Linux Subsystem for Windows] (WSL, or preferably WSL2). This (easily!) installs e.g. an [https://ubuntu.com/wsl Ubuntu] environment, which supports the apt package manager, so in principle any software available for Ubuntu may be installed (or other distros, see [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/05/11/new-distros-coming-to-bashwsl-via-windows-store/]).
 A lot of technical detail is at [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versions] .
@@ Line 183: / Line 220: @@
 (Screenshot provided by Gustavo Lima)
-A detailed [https://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/pub/xds%20%20prog%20installation%20in%20WSL%20(Lata%20Panicker).pdf writeup for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS] was provided by Dr Lata Panicker, SO(G), BARC, India.
+A detailed [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/xds%20%20prog%20installation%20in%20WSL%20(Lata%20Panicker).pdf writeup for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS] was provided by Dr Lata Panicker, SO(G), BARC, India.
 Update September 2021: With the current version of Windows 10 and WSL, the Qt5 binary of XDSGUI does not seem to allow editing in the XDS.INP tab. If this happens, either use an external editor or use xdsgui.qt4. In the latter case, you may have to install Qt4 libraries.
@@ Line 189: / Line 226: @@
 === WSL2 ===
-CCP4 7.1 including coot-0.9.5 works in a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine under WSL2 on Windows 10 version 20H2, and newer.
+Windows 11 supports WSL2 better than Windows 10, and does not need installation of X-server. https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-wsl2-on-windows-11-with-gui-support#5-install-and-use-a-gui-package
-[https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/wsl/install-win10 After installation of WSL2], I installed [https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ MobaXterm] as the Xserver. When the Windows firewall asked whether it should allow MobaXterm communication, I answered "yes" for both private and public networks.
+CCP4 including coot works in a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine (and newer) under WSL2 on Windows 10/11 .
 If you want to install CCP4 as a regular user, you need (as this is Linux! And replace MYWSLNAME with your WSL user name):
@@ Line 200: / Line 237: @@
   sudo apt install tcsh libqt5opengl5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5gui5 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libglu1-mesa libgomp1 binutils
 When installing CCP4, let it "modify command line environment" for you (on one of the very first screens of the installation GUI). If you forgot this, insert a line into your ~/.bashrc :
   source /opt/xtal/ccp4-7.1/bin/ccp4.setup-sh
+ # adapt the path according to your CCP4 installation!
 afterwards (this is not WSL specific, but is just Linux). I created a file in the Windows filesystem (replace MYUSERNAME with your Windows user name):
   cd /mnt/c/Users/MYUSERNAME/
@@ Line 207: / Line 245: @@
 to make the shelx* programs work (see https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4694 ), and to make "vsyscall=emulate" appear in /proc/cmdline. After creating the file, WSL2 must be restarted with "wsl.exe --shutdown" (or the machine booted).
-Performance of coot is good enough for occasional work. XDSGUI and multi-threaded XDS work as expected. For reading .h5 files, the NEGGIA plugin works correctly, but the DURIN plugin currently crashes (a [https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/durin/issues/22 bug] has been reported).
+Performance of coot is good enough for occasional work. XDSGUI and multi-threaded XDS work as expected. For reading .h5 files, the NEGGIA plugin works correctly, but the DURIN plugin may crash (a [https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/durin/issues/22 bug] has been reported).
-Update September 2021: With the current version of Windows 10 and WSL, the Qt5 binary of XDSGUI does not seem to allow editing in the XDS.INP tab. If this happens, either use an external editor or use xdsgui.qt4. In the latter case, you may have to install Qt4 libraries.
 == See also ==
 [[Cluster Installation]]

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