Dear Bruce and mailing list members, I'd like to report about the installation of the Demeter package under Ubuntu where everything went smoothly but a few glitches... ## Background: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, 3.5.0-19-generic with everything up to date as of today (December 18th). Demeter 0.9.14 (pulled from git today). I have Horae package installed and running (from Carlo's repos). I followed specific Ubuntu instructions at https://gist.github.com/3959252 (Dave Hughes' installation guide) ##First, one comment. You need to have the package gnuplot-x11 installed. For some reason, it was not installed in my case (although gnuplot was). This lead to many error messages during the './Build test' loop, and obviously the impossibility to plot anything when running (D)athena/artemis/hephaestus. At that time I did not think to try the change of the plotwith variable (gnuplot -> pgplot) as discussed in a previous ifeffit thread. I since reinstalled Ubuntu and this time installed gnuplot-x11 before Demeter. ##Then, a possible bug. It is reproducible everytime: - I launch Dathena from the command line without specifying the name of the project I want to open - I try to open a project (an old style Athena project) from the GUI (for example located at /home/denis/pathtothefolder/athena.prj) - I get an error message (a pop-up window, the terminal is quiet) saying '/home/denis/athena.prj is not readable', i.e. it looks for my file in my home folder and doesn't take into consideration the path to the file I input in the 'import data' dialog. - if I copy athena.prj from /home/denis/pathtothefolder/ to /home/denis/ then it works. - a workaround is: 'dathena /home/denis/pathtothefolder/athena.prj' In the case of Dartemis, it is a bit different: - if I try to open an old-style Artemis project through the dedicated old style import module (say, /home/denis/pathtothefolder/artemis.apj), there is a message at the bottom of the main Dartemis window saying: '/home/denis/artemis.apj is not an old style fitting project file'. Again it misses the complete path to the file. - if I try to open an old-style Artemis project through the 'open project of data' module, Dartemis crashes saying (in the terminal): Can't open($fh, '/home/denis/artemis.apj'): Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type at /home/denis/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/Demeter/Files.pm line 89 Actually, the crash may not be a bug as I am trying to open an old Artemis project through the bad channel obviously, but notice that the path to the file it refers to is again wrong. ## I must add that my first installation of Demeter (before I reinstalled Ubuntu) was global (not following the non root specific commands of Dave Hughes' installation guide) and I already had this problem. Let me know if you want me to try different things to track the problem down. Many thanks. Cheers Denis -- Denis Testemale Institut Néel FAME beamline at ESRF +33 476 881 045