<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Hi, I'm a newbie of maker.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">I met some errors in Repeatmasker step.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">The error is here:</span></div><div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;">NCBIBlastSearchEngine::search: Error...compressed subject database
(/home/softwares/RepeatMasker/Libraries/20170127/general/is.lib)
does not exist!</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I tried ncbi+blast 2.5.0 version and 2.6.0 version as the path to blast, both have the same error.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">And when I use the command as "maker -R", which skips the repeatmasker step, the maker could work.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I checked the former similar errors reported by another user and he solved the problem by updating the RepBase.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">So,</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> I deleted and re-installed the RepeatMasker, updated the RepBase, also installed RMblast.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The error is the same.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I'm stuck in the problem now.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Would highly appreciate any help - thanks!</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10.5pt"><br></p></div><div style="position:relative;zoom:1"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" style="font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 14px;">Jinyuan Lu</span></font></div><span style="font-family: ΢ÈíÑźÚ; line-height: 27px; font-size: 14px;">Shanghai Jiao Tong University</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida Grande', Verdana"><br></font><span style="font-family: "lucida Grande", Verdana; line-height: 23px; font-size: 14px;">No. 800 Dong Chuan Road,Minhang District, Shanghai, P.R. China</span><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div>