<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 3, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Dr. Mahmudur Rahman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear user,<br>I have just downloaded quantum espresso and cygwin (as i am using windows<br>7). But I do not understand how to run the example. I read the user guide;<br>still cannot make out.<br>Best regards,<br>Mahmud<br><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>how to run examples is explained here:<div><a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/user_guide/node13.html">http://www.quantum-espresso.org/user_guide/node13.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/user_guide/node13.html"></a>But from your message it is not clear why you didn't manage to run.</div><div>Did you get some error message?</div><div><br></div><div>Was your installation successful (namely, did you build working executable? have a look to the</div><div>Quantum-ESPRESSO/espresso-x.y.z/bin directory)? If so, you need to set some environment variables</div><div>under cygwin according to what explained in the above link:</div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><blockquote style="font-family: Times; ">BIN_DIR: directory where executables reside <br>PSEUDO_DIR: directory where pseudopotential files reside <br>TMP_DIR: directory to be used as temporary storage area</blockquote><div><br></div><div>On the side, although you should be able to easily install and make running Quantum-ESPRESSO</div><div>under cygwin + Windows, I would strongly suggest to try (if you have time) the much better, faster, friendly,</div><div>totally free, beautifully looking Linux operating system. You can download a live CD (just to try before installing it)</div><div>from <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">www.ubuntu.com</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Giovanni </div><div><br></div><div>
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