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EMAN1 is a fundamental package used in Appion for general file conversion and image filtering.

Download latest EMAN1 (not EMAN2) binaries (currently version 1.9):

  1. Go to the EMAN webpage
  2. Click on (download) next to EMAN1
  3. Scroll to Download 1.9 #* Note: For CentOS 6, you should download the latest nightly snapshot. (eman.daily.linuxcluster.tar.gz)
  4. Click on Download 1.9 link

  5. Select the appropriate package # we recommend using the cluster version of EMAN1 # x86 for 32bit and x86_64 for 64bit machines #* In this case, we would download the "eman-linux-x86_64-cluster-1.9.tar.gz"

  6. We have tgz files under Files tag of this website

Install EMAN

  1. Go to download directory and unzip the tar file: tar -zxvf eman-linux-x86_64-cluster-1.9.tar.gz
  2. Move the unzipped folder to a global location sudo mv -v EMAN /usr/local/
  3. Run the EMAN installer, it sets up the EMAN python module (must be run from the EMAN directory) cd /usr/local/EMAN/ ./eman-installer

Set enivromental variables

* For BASH, create an eman.sh and add the following lines:

export EMANDIR=/usr/local/EMAN
export PATH=${EMANDIR}/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${EMANDIR}/lib
export PYTHONPATH=${EMANDIR}/lib

* For C shell, create an eman.csh and add the following lines:

setenv EMANDIR /usr/local/EMAN
setenv PATH ${EMANDIR}/bin:${PATH}
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${EMANDIR}/lib
setenv PYTHONPATH ${EMANDIR}/lib

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

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

- or -

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

You may need to log out and log back in for these changes to take place.

Test EMAN install

Run proc2d

proc2d help

Should popup a window displaying help for proc2d

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