<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The problem is OSX. It has gradually moved out of compatibility with other Linux distributions over the years. You will need to install developer tools like Xcode, and perhaps even try homebrew to try and get around certain differences in OSX behavior..<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Homebrew —> <a href="https://brew.sh" class="">https://brew.sh</a></div><div class="">Brewsci/bio (science packages) -> <a href="https://github.com/brewsci/homebrew-bio" class="">https://github.com/brewsci/homebrew-bio</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After that 'brew install maker’ might work (cross your fingers).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Carson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 28, 2019, at 4:08 PM, Katherine Balasingham <<a href="mailto:katherine.balasingham@mail.utoronto.ca" class="">katherine.balasingham@mail.utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hello!</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">I hope I am contacting the correct email - I have been trying to install Maker for a few days now on my Mac OSX version 10.14 Mojave.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">It fails at the first few steps where it cannot install RepeatMasker, SNAP, or Exonerate. I have even tried to install these programs manually but Maker continues to fail to detect these packages or fails to install them properly. I did try using ./build package-name as well but to no avail. I ran ./Build installexes and ./Build installdeps but they constantly fail for those three programs only and I cannot find a solution online.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Could you provide me with the proper code to manually install these three programs so I can use Maker? I have checked online sources for these programs but then I run into the issue where configuring Maker does not seem to find these three programs if I install it separately, so I am stuck at this step.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Sorry for the long email I wanted to be explicit as I could be! </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">The error message I always get is:</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">ERROR: Failed installing RepeatMasker, now cleaning installation path...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">You may need to install RepeatMasker manually.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Checking external program dependencies...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">requires:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">!</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Exonerate is not installed</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">!</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">SNAP is not installed</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">!</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">RepeatMasker is not installed</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">ERRORS/WARNINGS FOUND IN PREREQUISITES.</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">You may wish to install the programs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">indicated above before proceeding with this installation.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Run 'Build installexes' to install missing prerequisites.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 206, 206); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Sincerely,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Katherine Balasingham</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">PS: I have never installed these programs before at all so I do not have older versions interfering with Maker. </div><br class=""></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">maker-devel mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:maker-devel@yandell-lab.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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