Installation

The recommended way of obtaining the latest xia2 is to install the latest xia2/DIALS bundle which can be obtained here.

xia2 depends critically on having CCP4 available. The dials and dials-aimless pipelines will work with only xia2 and CCP4 installed. In order to use the 3d, 3di and 3dii pipelines you will also need XDS.

The standard recommended procedure for installing xia2 is therefore:

• Install CCP4 from http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/download/. This now includes xia2/DIALS as part of the installation.

• Optionally download the latest xia2/DIALS bundle from https://dials.github.io/installation.html. Once installed, simply sourcing the dials_env.sh script in the installation directory will make available all xia2 and DIALS commands in the current terminal. Make sure to source the dials_env.sh script after the CCP4 setup script

• Optionally download XDS from http://xds.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/ and add this to your path [1]

By and large, if these instruction are followed you should end up with a happy xia2 installation. If you find any problems it’s always worth checking the blog or sending an email to xia2.support@gmail.com.

[1]

To use xparallel=True you will need to fiddle with forkintegrate in the XDS distribution