Git install scripts

For windows users - The Git way

1. Install Git for Windows.

Use following settings in options, read more here.

• Windows Explorer Integration -> Context Menu Entries -> Gut Bash Here + Git GUI here
• Run Git and included Unix tools from Windows Command prompts
• Checkout Windows style, commit Unix-style endings

1. Navigate to: C:/Users/YOURNAME/Documents (Note, always use forward slashes "/" for compatibility)
2. Right click in folder -> Select: Git Gui -> Clone Existing Repository
3. Source Location: git://github.com/Pymol-Scripts/Pymol-script-repo.git
4. Target Directory: C:/Users/YOURNAME/Documents/Pymol-script-repo

You now have all the scripts available in your directory.

You now have to add the "Pymol-script-repo" directory to the PyMOL search path.

1. Open notepad
2. Write (Remember forward slashes)

import sys
sys.path.append('C:/Users/YOURNAME/Documents/Pymol-script-repo')

Save under: C:/Users/YOURNAME/pymolrc.pym (Set: "Save as type" to "All files")

Now start PyMOL, and test in PyMOL.

print sys.path
import colorbydisplacement
help(colorbydisplacement)

Get latest changes to scripts

If new scripts are available or changes have been made, then:

1. Navigate to C:/Users/YOURNAME/Documents/Pymol-script-repo
2. Right click in folder -> Select: Git Bash
3. Write in terminal. Now you are done.

git pull origin master

For Ubuntu/Mint users - The Git way

1. Install git

sudo apt-get install git

1. Navigate to desired folder: cd /home/YOURNAME/Software/pymol

git clone git://github.com/Pymol-Scripts/Pymol-script-repo.git

You now have all the scripts available in: /home/YOURNAME/Software/pymol/Pymol-script-repo

You now have to add the "Pymol-script-repo" directory to the PyMOL search path.

gedit ~/.pymolrc

Write

import sys
sys.path.append('/home/YOURNAME/Software/pymol/Pymol-script-repo')

Save and exit

Now start PyMOL, and test in PyMOL.

print sys.path
import colorbydisplacement
help(colorbydisplacement)

Get latest changes to scripts

If new scripts are available or changes have been made, then:

1. Navigate to /home/YOURNAME/Software/pymol/Pymol-script-repo
2. Write in terminal. Now you are done.

git pull origin master

Do you want to contribute with a script?

Information how to contribute scripts to the repository. It's easy!
http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/git_authors