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Another post in the series of "things that are not on the internet yet", How to install Sequin on Fedora 15, 64-bit

The Sequin home page is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sequin/download/seq_unix_download.html

Download Sequin, and uncompress it

[user@host programinstallers]$ wget -N ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/sequin/CURRENT/sequin.linux-x86.tar.gz

Warning, this archive is a tar bomb, it will extract into the current directory

[user@host programinstallers]$ mkdir /usr/local/bin/sequin
[user@host programinstallers]$ cd /usr/local/bin/sequin
[user@host sequin]$ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/sequin.linux-x86.tar.gz

Modify the default PATH so that the program is accessible to all users

[user@host sequin]$ sudo nano /etc/profile
…
PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/sequin"
…

It doesn't work! See this error message when trying to run sequin

[user@host sequin]$ ./sequin
sequin: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

And this library is not in the default repositories:

[user@host sequin]$ yum provides 'libXm.so.3'
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No Matches found

We have to install the 32-bit version from the package openmotif, and since it is one version newer, make a symbolic link. But this package is not in the usual repositories, we need to add the rpmfusion repository.

[user@host sequin]$ sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable... http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-...
…
Installed:
  rpmfusion-free-release.noarch 0:13-4
  rpmfusion-nonfree-release.noarch 0:13-4
[user@host sequin]$ sudo yum install openmotif.i686
…
Installed:
  openmotif.i686 0:2.3.3-1.fc14

Dependency Installed:
  libXp.i686 0:1.0.0-16.fc15

[user@host sequin]$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/openmotif/libXm.so.4 /usr/lib/libXm.so.3