[xcrysden] [EXTERNAL] Re: Problem with installing xcrysden on Mac OS 10.17.7 (Catalina) (Vo, Trinh T)

[Gavin Abo]

While it should be better to install XCrySDen directly in your native 
environment (Mac OS), if your computer hardware has enough resources 
(hard drive space, etc.) another possible alternative might be to use a 
virtualization software [1] like qemu [2] in which a Linux distribution 
could be installed such as Ubuntu and install XCrySDen in that [3].

[1] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtualization_software
[2] https://www.qemu.org/download/#macos
[3] http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2020-January/001975.html

Kind Regards,

Gavin

On 10/14/2021 1:57 PM, Vo, Trinh T (US 398K) wrote:
> Dear Prof. Wood,
>
> Thank you very much for your message.  Yes, in the past I used macports to install Xcrysden.   I had conflict with Home Brew.  Macports supports a number of software, but some others it does not, and I installed Home Brew to install those software , but then Macports is deactivated.   Only one is allowed to be active.  I still can use Xcrysden, but for some libraries, they are duplicated in different locations.  Therefore, for my new laptop, I intended to compile from source, but then I have other problems.  Let me try to work around if I can solve the problem.  If not, I will install Macports and then Xcrysden.
>
> Thanh you,
>
> Trinh
>
> On 8/18/21, 7:02 PM, "xcrysden-bounces at democritos.it on behalf of dmwood" <xcrysden-bounces at democritos.it on behalf of dmwood at mines.edu> wrote:
>
>      Just a reminder that xcrysden can be installed via the macports package manager.  In the off chance that readers don’t know about macports: many science-related package are available and build and install painlessly in /opt/local tree.
>      —DMW
>
>      dmwood at mines.edu
>      Emeritus Assoc Prof
>      Department of Physics
>      Colorado School of Mines