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Installation notes for Structure version 2.3.4 Jul 2012

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Prerequisites

Support for running 32-bit executables reference
$ sudo apt-get install libc6-i386

Installation

1. Download from http://pritchardlab.stanford.edu/structure_software/release_versions/v2.3.4/html/structure.html
   I manually renamed the downloaded file with the version number, i.e.
   $ mv structure_linux_frontend.tar.gz structure_linux_frontend.2.3.4.tar.gz
   and I saved this file in /programinstallers/
   Note that the console version is a subset of the frontend version, so we don't need to download it.
2. $ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/structure_linux_frontend.2.3.4.tar.gz
3. $ cd frontend
4. $ sudo ./install

   Testing default java virtual machine in the system ... OK
   Copy files to /usr/local/Structure/ ... 
   structure v2.3.3 is installed successfully ← I suppose this is a bug, it should say v2.3.4 ☹

5. It doesn't tell you that the launcher is still in the current directory, so we need to move it somewhere, and also rename it to avoid conflict with the command line version
   $ sudo cp -puv structure /usr/local/Structure/structurefrontend
6. Create a launcher for all users
   $ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/Bioinformatics/Structure.desktop
   

   #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
   [Desktop Entry]
   Version=1.0
   Type=Application
   Terminal=false
   Name=Structure
   Exec=/usr/local/Structure/structurefrontend
   Comment=Investigate population structure with multi-locus genotype data
   Icon=structure_32.png
   Categories=Bioinformatics

7. Link to the icon referenced in the launcher, copy to /usr/share/pixmaps/
   
8. Make a symlink in case we want to run command-line version, i.e. structure is a command in the default PATH for all users
   $ ln -s /usr/local/Structure/bin/structure /usr/local/bin/structure
9. Copy manual for local web page
   $ cp -puv doc/structure_doc.pdf ../web/programs/structure/
10. Cleanup
    $ cd ..
11. $ rm frontend -rf