Installing EMBOSS on FreeBSD

A FreeBSD EMBOSS package has been created by Johann Visagie johann@egenetics.com of Electric Genetics. This will be distributed on the installation CD's and through the normal distribution channels from FreeBSD version 4.2 onwards.

For the FreeBSD user with an up-to-date ports tree^2.3, installing EMBOSS reduces to two simple commands (as root):

# cd /usr/ports/biology/emboss
# make install

The FreeBSD specific parts of the port are that

emboss.default

is included with the other configuration files under

/usr/local/etc

as

emboss.default.sample

, and the EMBOSS documentation is installed in

/usr/local/share/doc/EMBOSS

instead of the default location. For further information on installation under FreeBSD you are referred to the Resources chapter.