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mhoffman / kmos

kMC on steroids: A vigorous attempt to make lattice kinetic Monte Carlo modelling easier
http://mhoffman.github.com/kmos/
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gazpacho and kiwi #27

Open xunhuazhao opened 9 years ago

xunhuazhao commented 9 years ago

Hi,

The apt-get way seems not not working to install gazpacho and kiwi (?), so I install them manually after downloading from the following sites (I put it here for other's info): https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gazpacho/0.7.2-2ubuntu1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kiwi/1.9.22-2 The installation finished normally.

However, when I tried to use "kmos edit XXXX.xml", it told me "EnvironmentError: path /usr/share/gazpacho/pixmaps must be a directory" Then I found pixmaps directory is actually available via a different path: /usr/local/share/gazpacho/.

It looks like that I have to tell kmos the new address of gazpacho. It would be great if someone can tell me how to do this? Thank you very much.

mhoffman commented 9 years ago

When you say 'apt-get way', have you tried installing it by directly downloading one of the old Debian packages[1]. And then install them with 'sudo dpkg -i '. Otherwise if you have already managed to install it from source, you could also trying fixing the /usr/local/share installation by setting soft links from where your python runtime expects it, to where it actually is, e.g.

ln -s /usr/local/share/gazpacho/pixmaps /usr/share/gazpacho/pixmaps

However this may end up setting many soft links depending how the gazpacho internals work. And you have to do it again on every installation. This is why I was hoping the 'sudo dpkg -i ...' way would still work.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/de/squeeze/all/gazpacho/download

xunhuazhao commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the previous suggestions. I tried to download and install the package from the above link and finally I saw the nice panel with all the parameters and processes shown there. However, there seems to be some last problem. The error message is:" ... File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kmos/utils/init.py", line 494, in col_str2tuple color = gtk.gdk.Color(hex_string) ValueError: unable to parse colour specification".

Thxs once again.

mhoffman commented 9 years ago

I need more details (step 1. ... 2. ... 3 ...) how to reproduce this behavior to tell you what is going wrong.