Hello folks, the reasons why I wanted to build from source instead of using the binary installer was due to the fact that I was trying to get the ZnO tutorials to run smoothly as I was told happened in Paul's and Bruce's G4. I thought that would ask for a detailed set of installation instructions. Now I understand better, so I did erase the /Applications/Ifeffit directory, deleted the /Library/perl directory and re-run the binary installer for 1.2.5a I checked and the aquaterm application started smoothly when called from athena or artemis. I had in the meantime deleted the aquaterm in fink, just in case... Afterwards I ran the horae_update --force command, as told by Paul, and now I think things should go OK. I confirm the presence of the ZnO tutorial as indicated by Paul: % pwd /Applications/Ifeffit/bin/horae-036/examples/artemis/ZnO % ls README ZnO-atoms.inp ZnO.prj ZnO2.apj ZnO4.apj README.rtf ZnO.chi ZnO1.apj ZnO3.apj ZnOFinal.apj % ls -la total 1144 drwxr-xr-x 12 500 100 408 2 Jun 15:09 . drwxr-xr-x 7 500 100 238 2 Jun 15:09 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 1758 8 Dec 2003 README -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 6411 8 Dec 2003 README.rtf -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 599 1 May 01:58 ZnO-atoms.inp -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 12863 10 Nov 2003 ZnO.chi -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 174875 1 Nov 2003 ZnO.prj -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 9190 23 Jan 21:26 ZnO1.apj -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 90143 23 Jan 21:15 ZnO2.apj -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 88803 23 Jan 21:16 ZnO3.apj -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 93264 23 Jan 21:17 ZnO4.apj -rw-r--r-- 1 500 100 85047 23 Jan 21:18 ZnOFinal.apj So now I am back to where I was a few days ago. Now I start artemis by clicking on the icon and read in the ZnO.chi data, and guess what: aquaterm does NOT start. The conclusion would be that the problem occurs when I update horae to horae-036. However: I erased again the /Applications/Ifeffit directory, deleted the /Library/perl directory and re-run the binary installer for 1.2.5a Now, the ZnO directory is no longer present in the directory above. I had saved it in another directory, but when I run artemis by clicking the icon and try to read in the files in the ZnO directiy, the aquaterm does NOT start!!! Please explain this to me. I ran the horae_update command, and again the aquaterm does not start when I try to read in spectra I ran the horae_update --force command and again the aquaterm does not start when I try to read in spectra Now, I deleted again the /Applications/Ifeffit and the /Library/perl directories and re-run the binary installer, as well as the horae_update --force command and again the aquaterm does not start when I try to read in spectra I deleted again the same two directories and re-run the binary installer: when I start athena from the icon, and I try to read in data, the aquaterm does not start when I try to read in spectra. I am now in a condition where I cannot get the aquaterm to start in any of the endless trials I did. You guys keep telling me to replace iconf_pgplot with the version in Matt's recent posting to this list. I do not have any file that looks like that... I am lost. Stefano -- ____________________________________________ Stefano Ciurli Professor of Chemistry Department of Agro-Environmental Science and Technology University of Bologna Viale Giuseppe Fanin, 40 I-40127 Bologna Italy Phone: +39-051-209-6204 Fax: +39-051-209-6203 "Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza" Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Canto XXVI