Welcome to the ARB Sequence Analysis Suite System Requirements ------------------- Operating System: Linux or OSX Harddrive: 200 MB for arb (+some GB for databases) Memory: much Notes: The resources required for ARB to run smoothly depend on the size of the database(s) you intend to work with. Large databases, especially the SSU databases provided by the SILVA project, require large amounts of fast memory. Please refer to http://bugs.arb-home.de/wiki/SystemRequirements for details on memory usage. Choose ARB version: ------------------- Currently there are two arb versions available: * the frequently updated PRODUCTION version (recommended) * the last stable public RELEASE version Installation using Package Managers: ---------------------------------- OSX: Please refer to https://github.com/arb-project/homebrew-arb Linux: We generally recommend installation from Pre-Compiled Binary (see below)! Some arb versions are distributed via apt or launchpad. These versions are modified (to fit better into linux systems), but they are not supported nor tested by us. Installation from Pre-Compiled Binaries: ---------------------------------------- 1) Download "arb_install.sh" and the arb-*.tgz matching your distribution * for production version from http://download.arb-home.de/production/latest/ * for release version from http://download.arb-home.de/release/latest/ We currently only provide a few precompiled versions: arb-*.debian#-amd64.tgz arb-*.ubuntu#-amd64.tgz (here '*' stands for the version or revision number, e.g. '6.0.6' or 'r17491' and '#' stands for the OS version number) Note: * all versions are compiled without OPENGL 2) Install using "arb_install.sh" Open a terminal, change to the directory where you have saved the files needed for installation: 'arb_install.sh' // install script 'arb_README.txt' // this file 'arb-*.tgz' // your chosen ARB version and type bash arb_install.sh (to install arb for all users call the script as root or via sudo) Answer all questions asked by the script. Notes: - The script will ask about a pt_server directory. This is a directory where arb will store big index files. You should enter a different path as you do not want to recreate those files after an ARB update. - Normally pressing enter will be a good choice. - You can rerun the script as often as needed. It can be used to reconfigure an existing arb installation. Change your ".cshrc" or ".profile" files or create an 'arb' alias. To do so, follow the instructions printed when installation does succeed. 3) Install library dependencies. ARB needs: gnuplot, gv, openmotif, xfig, transfig, xterm, libtiff, libX11, libXaw, libXext, libxml2, libXpm, libXt, lynx, time, libxslt, glib2, readline On Centos, dependencies should be satisfied by running: sudo yum install gnuplot openmotif xfig transfig xterm libXpm \ libtiff libX11 libXaw libXext libxml2 libXpml libXt lynx \ time libxslt readline glib2 On Ubuntu use the package installation script delivered together with arb: SH/arb_installubuntu4arb.sh If any of the packages is not available on your system, it might just have a slightly differing name. Try using "yum search" or "apt-cache search" to search for packages matching the base name (e.g. "yum search libxpm") and pick the one that's available. The only known issue is that you must not use "lesstif" instead of motif/openmotif (if you do, the GUI will be corrupted). 4) prepare alias / PATH for arb During step 2) above, the script should have advised you howto change your login script or howto create an alias. Then go to a directory with a demo database (e.g. 'demo.arb' in the arb installation directory) and start 'ARB' by typing arb Alternatively: You can now run ARB simply by entering "./bin/arb" from the folder where you installed ARB into. For convenience, put a symlink to that file into any folder that is in your PATH so that you can just type "arb" to run it. 5) install some more fonts apt-get install \ x11-xfs-utils gsfonts-x11 \ xfonts-terminus xfonts-terminus-dos xfonts-terminus-oblique Compiling ARB from source ------------------------- * See arb_INSTALL.txt for information about how to compile arb from source. Additional information ---------------------- * See arb_INSTALL.txt for additional software needed and/or useful together with ARB. PT_server --------- To Install 'ARB' you have to know that some modules use a so called 'pt_server' (prefix tree server). ARB needs a writeable directory to store the pt_server files. Those files are needed for fast database search (by probe_design, probe_match and the automatic aligner) and need a lot of disc space (up to several 100 mega bytes, e.g. 4000 16S RNA sequences require about 40 MB). This files are not created now. They can be build by any user via You may define a special directory as the pt_server files location. This prevents any loss of data installing a new version of ARB. To minimize the use of resources in a workstation cluster only one pt_server for each database is started on a user defined host. The first user starts the pt_server, and all other users can connect to it. The Database ------------ In the current release a small dataset (demo.arb) is provided. This database contains a selection of artificial and real-life sequences. The intention of providing this small dataset first is to give you the opportunity to get familiar with the program and to test the performance of your computer system as well as the stability of ARB on your system. Bugs ---- ARB is running properly and stably on our systems. However, it may be that there are bugs never detected by us or never appearing on our systems. Please don't hesitate to inform us about any bugs. A detailed description of the steps performed before the problem was evident and of the number and types of modules running at the same time would be extremely helpful to our computer scientists. Please report bugs into our bug tracker at http://bugs.arb-home.de/ Support ------- Please send any comments, bug reports or questions to arb@arb-home.de Copyright Notice ---------------- Please see the file arb_LICENSE.txt in the ARB installation directory. Disclaimer ---------- THE AUTHORS OF ARB GIVE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED FOR THE SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION PROVIDED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Have fun!