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MUSCLE 2 Installation

The recent bundle of MUSCLE can be downloaded from the Downloads section. The bundled package contains the source code, documentation and precompiled Java archives (jar). We maintain a list of clusters where MUSCLE is already deployed.

The offered version of MUSCLE 2 in extends and improves the package provided by Jan Hegewald, notably it has:

improved the installation procedure (some dependencies are already included in the bundle),
updated API
increased performance
decreased complexity
implemented a port range traversing technique for cross-cluster execution.

Dependencies

The core functionality of the MUSCLE is written in Java. To be able to integrate native code with the MUSCLE, there is also a native part which is written in C++. Bootstrapping and platform independent configuration is done with a flexible setup mechanism written in Ruby.

In order to use the MUSCLE, you need a recent Java runtime, either Oracle-Java or Open-JDK. Java third-party dependencies are already provided in the bundle and do not need to be independently installed.

For the command-line interface Ruby is needed.

To compile and install MUSCLE, use the CMake package. For the MUSCLE Transport Overlay, to communicate between different clusters, Boost is needed.

Installation of dependencies on a Debian flavored Linux

Run

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake ruby libboost-dev

to install all dependencies at once.

Installation of dependencies on Scientific Linux 5.6

To install all dependencies in a single command, run

sudo yum install ruby gcc-c++ cmake jdk curl

Note: you may need to add the reference to the repository with extra packages. To do this create the file 'epel.repo' in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory. The content of the file may look as follows:

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch 
 
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Installation of dependencies on Mac OS X

Most dependencies are installed when installing Xcode. In Xcode 4, the command-line tools are installed by opening Preferences -> Downloads and pressing Install for "Command-line tools". For Boost and CMake, download the packages on their website or use an installation manager like HomeBrew or MacPorts.

Remainder of the installation

If your ruby version is 1.8.x:

ruby --version

then it is necessary to install json with the following command

sudo gem install json

When the dependencies are in place, you are ready to build and install MUSCLE. Download the muscle bundle from Downloads section, e.g.

curl -#O http://apps.man.poznan.pl/trac/muscle/downloads/muscle-2.0-RC1.zip

Extract the download, e.g.

unzip muscle-2.0-RC1.zip

Change your working directory to the the MUSCLE directory:

cd muscle-2.0-RC1/build

Invoke MUSCLE build script with installation; this installs MUSCLE in /opt/muscle. For another location, add this as the first argument.

sudo ./build.sh

See if MUSCLE is working correctly:

source /opt/muscle/etc/muscle.profile
muscle2 --version

The command

source /opt/muscle/etc/muscle.profile

should always be run before executing MUSCLE. It can help to put this command in ~/.bashrc so that it runs at login.