Download the source code to install. Step into the directory and run the following configure command line. It's important to use these flags
cd ViennaRNA-2.4.2
./configure PYTHON2_DIR='/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages' PYTHON2_EXECDIR='/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages'
Read the last few lines of the configure script output. It should read:
##############################################
# Files will be installed in the following ##
# directories: ##
##############################################
Executables: /usr/local/bin
Libraries: /usr/local/lib
Header files: /usr/local/include
Extra Data: /usr/local/share
Man pages: /usr/local/share/man
Documentation: /usr/local/share/doc/ViennaRNA
(HTML): /usr/local/share/doc/ViennaRNA/html
(PDF): /usr/local/share/doc/ViennaRNA
Perl5 Interface: Not to be installed
(binaries):
(scripts):
Python2 Interface:
(binaries): /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
(scripts): /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Python3 Interface: Not to be installed
(binaries):
(scripts):
If it reads "Not to be installed" for the Python interfaces, it may be that you are mising a key file, python-config (certain Linux distros have this issue). It can be installed using:
sudo pip install python-config
If python-config is already installed, it will tell you.
Lastly to install ViennaRNA run the following two commands:
