Install SPIDER¶

Install documentation at wadsworth.org¶

the Wadsworth Institute provides detailed documentation" on how to install SPIDER on various systems. Below we cover a our way to get it working on your system.

Download SPIDER binary from wadsworth.org (250 MiB)¶

Most of our SPIDER scripts were originally designed around SPIDER v14 and v15, but we are diligently working toward compatibility with SPIDER v18. That said you are probably best off using the newest version of SPIDER (v18.10 as of May 2010) and then reporting any bugs to us.

Extract the archive¶

tar -zxvf spiderweb.18.10.tar.gz

The archive will create 3 folders: spider, spire, and web. At this time only the spider program is used within Appion, you can safely ignore web and spire.

Install SPIDER¶

• Copy the spider folder to global directory:
  

  sudo mv -v spider /usr/local/

• Next, you need to determine which version of the spider binary you need to use on your system.
  

  cd /usr/local/spider/bin
  ls spider*
    spider_linux           spider_linux_mp_intel64  spider_linux_mp_opt64  spider_osx_64_pgi
    spider_linux_mp_intel  spider_linux_mpi_opt64   spider_osx_32_pgi
  

sudo ln -sv /usr/local/spider/bin/spider /usr/local/

Set environmental variables¶

For BASH, create an spider.sh and add the following lines:¶

export SPIDER=/usr/local/spider
export SPMAN_DIR=${SPIDER}/man
export SPPROC_DIR=${SPIDER}/proc
export SPRGB_DIR=${SPIDER}/rgb

For C shell, create an spider.csh and add the following lines:¶

setenv SPIDER /usr/local/spider
setenv SPMAN_DIR ${SPIDER}/man
setenv SPPROC_DIR ${SPIDER}/proc
setenv SPRGB_DIR ${SPIDER}/rgb

And then add it to the global /etc/profile.d/ folder¶

sudo cp -v spider.sh /etc/profile.d/spider.sh
sudo chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/spider.sh

-or-

sudo cp -v spider.csh /etc/profile.d/spider.csh
sudo chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/spider.csh

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