
This will enable installing binaries by default.
Install Homebrew according to these instructions.Īllow it to install in the default location (which differs according to processor type). (which can peacefully coexist with other package management systems). For that reason, I recommend installing Homebrew In addition, fink had fallenįar behind with respect to maintaining packages upon which coot relies for its GUI functionality. Homebrew is now milesĪhead of fink, both in terms of ease of use, and in terms of running natively on "Apple Silicon/M1x" processors. The standalone coot package was in fact based on fink as well. My very informal and unofficial notes on Installing Coot with Homebrewįor about 20 years I maintaned a coot package in fink. Frankly, I think Homebrew is our best hope. Fink, unfortunately, is not very up-to-date anymore, and thanks to a punitive teaching load, I haven't had any time to invest in trying to get this to work. I have been unable to get any recent versions of coot working within Fink, which is where the package I mainain(ed) resides. I am merely a fellow user, so I am unable to offer anything beyond informal experiences, listed below, which may be out of date or simply incorrect. I do not maintain COOT or any Homebrew packages. Information about how to do this, and how to deal with run-time problems, can be found The COOT homebrew package is maintained by Prof. It, like all CCP4 programs, is maintained by paid professionals. Currently, this is the best option if you want a version of COOT that simply works. The two best options for installing COOT on MacOS (formerly OSX) are the following: