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Installation notes for Circos version 0.64

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Prerequisites

Installation

  1. $ ver="0.64"; tver="0.16-2"
  2. $ cd /programinstallers/
  3. $ wget -N http://circos.ca/distribution/circos-$ver.tgz
  4. $ wget -N http://circos.ca/distribution/circos-tools-$tver.tgz
  5. $ cd /usr/local/bin
  6. $ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/circos-$ver.tgz
  7. $ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/circos-tools-$tver.tgz
  8. If upgrading:
    $ rm circos
    $ rm circos-tools
  9. Make version-independent symlinks
    $ ln -s circos-$ver circos
  10. $ ln -s circos-tools-$tver circos-tools
  11. circos is in the default path, but circos tools are not
  12. If /bin/env does not exist:
    $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/env /bin/env
  13. Add to default PATH
    $ sudo nano /etc/profile
    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/circos/bin"
  14. Edit default configuration to use tab as delimiter instead of any white space
    $ nano /usr/local/bin/circos-$ver/etc/housekeeping.conf

    file_delim = \t