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NMR software on Fedora

Fedora 14 i386 x86_64 Source RPMs

Here are some pointers for building and packaging NMR software for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS. This list contains instructions for FOSS software not in Fedora, EPEL or RPM Fusion, and for some non-free (including academic use only) programs — I may remove guides for non-free software if a free alternative becomes available, or if they fail to build or run on the latest Fedora release.

Note that you will require an RPM build environment for packaging, and your system configured for TMM repos to download SRPMs with yum. You will be prompted with Fedora-compatible package names for any missing dependencies. The source RPMs and SPEC files can be modified for use with other RPM-based distributions

RNMRTK 1
  1. Obtain the build SRPM with yumdownloader --source --enablerepo=TMM-NMR rnmrtk
  2. Place rnmrtk.v3.tgz in the SOURCES directory of your RPM build environment, then run rpmbuild --rebuild rnmrtk-version.src.rpm to build and package RNMRTK.

Sorry — due to licensing issues, I can't offer binary RPMs. You will need to obtain rnmrtk.v3.tgz from the authors.
  1. 32-bit only (not suitable for IA64).
  2. Requires security vulnerability to operate.
  3. Requires nonstandard colour depth (not supported by all display adapters/drivers).
  4. Requires functionality no longer supported by X11 implementations.

Notice: recent removals

Fedora is at the forefront of new technology (and security updates), and non-maintained NMR software tends to fail here first. If software you rely on has been recently removed from this list, you are advised to: (a) try an operating system utilising an older base and (b) only update it for security reasons — this may buy you 6 months–2 years1 to find an alternative, or develop your own replacement. Please carefully consider your choice of license when developing new NMR software, in the event that your company or research group will one day lack the time/funding to maintain your projects in-house...

  1. Or less. I have heard that some programs no longer function on newer releases of more conservative systems, such as RHEL, Debian and OS X due to X Server/XQuartz updates.