*********************************************** * NMRFAM-SPARKY 1.413 powered by Sparky 3.134 * *********************************************** * HOW TO MAKE NMRFAM-SPARKY WORK ************** *********************************************** Untar your package and run install.py with root account. !!!!! Do not untar nmrfam-sparky-mac into you /Applications directory directly !!!!! $ tar xvf nmrfam-sparky-mac.tar (or tar xvfz nmrfam-sparky-mac.tar.gz) And then, $ cd nmrfam-sparky-mac $ sudo python ./install.py This will automatically install NMRFAM-SPARKY in /Applications/nmrfam-sparky-mac. If you use python 3 as default, you can do this: $ sudo python2.7 ./install.py ------------------------ For El Capitan and later, You *MUST* keep the installation path as /Applications/nmrfam-sparky-mac. If you cannot get it work, run XQuartz, and check your messages after doing these: $ cd /Applications/nmrfam-sparky-mac/NMRFAM-SPARKY.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ $ sparky If messages are related to failure on loading libraries, you may have some weird environmental set-up. ------------------------ For Mavericks & newer, Please allow program to be run from System Preferences > Security & Privacy. ------------------------ For Yosemite, You probably need to install XQuartz 2.7.7 or above to use NMRFAM-SPARKY. It can be found at: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ If you installed older XQuartz version before, you need to follow this to uninstall it correct. http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X11-UsersFAQ Find Uninstall section and follow that. You may have to delete .idlerc file in your home directory if it exists. When you uninstall X11, please make sure you no longer have /opt/X11, /usr/X11, and /usr/X11R6 directories. After reinstallation, make sure you have /usr/X11. If you still does not have NMRFAM-SPARKY run correct, This will probably help: $ ln -s /opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib * Report from Syracuse (Carlos Castaneda) Old libfreetype.6.dylib in the Chimera.app directory was forced to be used instead of /opt/X11/lib version. NMRFAM-SPARKY could be executed with the uninstallation of Chimera. Probably, updating the version in the Chimera.app (or other app) with the new version could solve the problem. * New update (02/27/2015) probably solved the problem. If NMRFAM-SPARKY.app/Contents/Resources/libstdc++6.dylib exists, please remove it. ------------------------ For Lion & older, We do not officially support legacy operating systems. Alternatively, you can use Virtual Box to run NMRFAM-SPARKY. ------------------------