Hello Jared,
> Two of the grad students in our structural biology course are having
> similar problems installing Coot on their Mac computers using the
> stand-alone packages from Bill Scott's Crystallography on OS X website.
I did the same thing about 2 months ago. I tried out the package on about
20 student laptops for a single day class we held. About half of the
installations didn't work with either the "magic number" error or a second
error that I can't recall.
> $ coot
My recollection is that this is a shell script wrapper that calls the
actual coot-real binary, and in that wrapper there is a PYTHONPATH setting.
If it hasn't changed since I last tried to use Bill's package, that
PYTHONPATH contains the system python 2.5 and 2.6 modules directories, but
the python that is compiled into Coot via Fink is python 2.7. Removing the
non-2.7 directories from the PYTHONPATH got about 5 more of the
installations working.
The remaining machines wouldn't run the package no matter what I tried.
Good luck!
-ben
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