FirstRunInstructions

Instructions for new users

Copy sample structures to your home directory

The sample CT and DOT files shipped with RNAStructViz are available in ${INSTALLATION-PREFIX-DIR}/RNAStructViz/sample_structures/. On Mac OSX (if you installed with our brew package), you can copy the structures into an easier to find location by running the following commands at your terminal:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir -p RNAStructViz
$ cp -R /usr/local/opt/rnastructviz/sample_structures ./RNAStructViz/
$ cd RNAStructViz/sample_structures
$ RNAStructViz

On Linux and other Unix systems (for users who ran sudo make install), commands to copy the initial sample structures into a working directory inside of the user's home directory are as follows:

$ cd ~
$ cp -r /usr/local/share/RNAStructViz ./
$ cd RNAStructViz/sample_structures
$ RNAStructViz

For users with a local install of RNAStructViz built from this git repository, you can find these sample structures by navigating to the cloned directory and running:

$ cd ~/RNAStructViz/sample_structures/
$ ../src/RNAStructViz

After you copy the sample structure files, re-run RNAStructViz, click the "Load Files" button in the left-hand pane of the screen, and then navigate to this new local directory to select input files to load with the application. Note that the dialog that appears is capable of selecting multiple files at once by holding down CTRL (on Linux / Unix) or SHIFT (on Mac) as in any other multi-file selection GUI.