[Bioclusters] NCBI rpm?

[Joe Landman]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 14:38, Dan Bolser wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I want to quickly find a sequence for a list of sequence id's, so I
> thought I would use formatdb to index the fasta format database and then
> use the sequence retreival tool to query this index.
> 
> Is formatdb included in the NCBI rpm available from 
> 
> http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/downloads/ncbi/

Yes.  The binary RPMs contain compiled executables which install into
/usr/local/bin.  To run formatdb you would run

	/usr/local/bin/formatdb

> When I try to install this rpm (src), it doesn't show up when I search rpm
> -q -a output.
> 
> I am just doing  
> 
> rpm -i NCBI-2.2.7-6.src.rpm (returns no error messages)
> 
> Is this correct?

Only if you intend to rebuild from source :).  If you have a look in the
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory, you will see ncbi.tar.gz (the NCBI
tools tarball of source).  In /usr/src/redhat/SPECS you will see
ncbi-toolkit.spec which will happily turn this tarball into a binary
RPM, after a long compilation process.

It might be simpler to grab
http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/downloads/ncbi/NCBI-2.2.7-6.i686.rpm and use this if you don't need to recompile.  Please do let me know if there are any issues with the build.

Joe

 
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