How to install Bowtie

[maize]

bowtie installation

I solved the problem.. so the reason I couldn't unzip the zip file is that it's incomplete.. I tried to re-download the file and now the unzip commend works!

Hi buddy,

I noticed that you installed the bowtie successfully. Now i also downloaded the bowtie_zip file and unzip it. but i cannot install it smoothly. Could you share your experience with me ? thanks in advance!

[gene_x]

Ok. Looks like Bowtie comes precompiled so there's no makefile. The problem for you is that ./bowtie doesn't work.

Even though you're using a mac, you _do not_ want to download the mac version of bowtie since you're putting it on your cluster. Your cluster is likely linux-based so you'll want to get the linux version of Bowtie. I'm assuming this is what is causing the unzip error as well.

I solved the problem.. so the reason I couldn't unzip the zip file is that it's incomplete.. I tried to re-download the file and now the unzip commend works!

[gene_x]

I tried to download an linux version and it indeed solved the problem!
But the unzip commend still doesn't work...

Thanks a lot!

[dp05yk]

Ok. Looks like Bowtie comes precompiled so there's no makefile. The problem for you is that ./bowtie doesn't work.

Even though you're using a mac, you _do not_ want to download the mac version of bowtie since you're putting it on your cluster. Your cluster is likely linux-based so you'll want to get the linux version of Bowtie. I'm assuming this is what is causing the unzip error as well.

[gene_x]

OK. I've done that and tried the Bowtie tutorial and got an error message:
-bash: ./bowtie: cannot execute binary file

I think the reason is when I tried the commend "make" in the bowtie directory, an error messages pops up:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
when I tried "make all", another error message:
make: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
or "make clean"
make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.

What's the problem here??

[gene_x]

I did hit "tab" and the filename is what appears on the bowtie website. I tried to use simple names as "bowtie.zip" but it had the same problem...
I know just unzip the file on my computer and then upload them.. this is not the best way to do it apparently..

[dp05yk]

Strange... how do you enter the filename... do you hit "tab" after typing, say, "bowtie" and let the terminal autocomplete the filename?

Try renaming the zip file to something really simple like "bowtie.zip" and try again.

What you can always do is just unzip the file on your mac via. the GUI and then upload the unzipped folder to your server!

[gene_x]

thanks for your reply! I actually know how to navigate the terminal.. I downloaded the zip file onto our server and tried to unzip the file by commend: unzip bowtie-0.12.7-macos-10.5-x86_64.zip

Then this message pops up:

Archive: bowtie-0.12.7-macos-10.5-x86_64.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of bowtie-0.12.7-macos-10.5-x86_64.zip or
bowtie-0.12.7-macos-10.5-x86_64.zip.zip, and cannot find bowtie-0.12.7-macos-10.5-x86_64.zip.ZIP, period.

What should I do with this?

[dp05yk]

Unzip it, navigate to the folder using your Terminal program (if you can't find terminal, press command + spacebar to bring up spotlight and type "Terminal").

If you've never used a bash terminal before, make sure you unzip your folder somewhere easy to find, like your desktop. Then from terminal type "cd desktop", and then "ls", to view all files on your desktop. Then "cd folder_name" where folder_name = bowtie folder.

Once inside this folder, just type "make". It should compile as long as you have Developer Tools installed on your mac (or the applicable compiler).

[gene_x]

Hi, all,
I'm new to informatics and I'm trying to install Bowtie in our cluster. I've downloaded the zip file and don't know how to proceed from there. Can anyone help me on that? I'm using a Mac.
Thanks a lot!