<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks for all the responses. I guess it was my outdated version of XCrySDen that was causing the problem.<br><br><font size="3"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">On Fri, Jun 17 13:28:47 CEST 2011, Tone Kokalj wrote:</span></font><br>>Why don't you try with the new version:<br><span>><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xcrysden.org/download/xc-1.5.24-linux_x86_64-semishared.tar.gz">http://www.xcrysden.org/download/xc-1.5.24-linux_x86_64-semishared.tar.gz</a></span><br><br>I downloaded this version and used ./xcConfigure<a href="http://www.xcrysden.org/download/xc-1.5.24-linux_x86_64-semishared.tar.gz"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></a> to configure the program. Because my previous version was still installed, I had to manually put the following
lines into my .bashrc file:<br><br>#------------------------------------------------------------------------<br># this is for XCRYSDEN 1.5.24; added by XCRYSDEN installation on<br># Mon Jun 20 16:22:44 PDT 2011<br>#------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/home/Izaak/XCrySDen/XCrySDen-1.5.24-bin-semishared<br>XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/home/Izaak/xcrys-tmp/<br>export XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH<br>PATH="$XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR:$PATH:$XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR/scripts:$XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR/util"<br><br>After using the command ". ~/.bashrc" to source it, I try running xcrysden and this is what is produced:<br><br>+----------------------------------------------------------------+<br>|****************************************************************|<br>|*
*|<br>|* XCrySDen - (X-Window) CRYstalline Structures and DENsities *|<br>|* = === = ===
*|<br>|*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*|<br>|* *|<br>|* Anton Kokalj
(Tone.Kokalj@ijs.si) *|<br>|* Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia *|<br>|*
*|<br>|* Copyright (c) 1996--2009 by Anton Kokalj
*|<br>|* *|<br>|****************************************************************|<br>+----------------------------------------------------------------+<br><br> Version: 1.5.24<br><br> Please report bugs to: Tone.Kokalj@ijs.si<br><br><br> TERMS OF USE:<br> -------------<br>
XCRYSDEN is released under the GNU General Public License.<br><br> Whenever graphics generated by XCRYSDEN are used in scientific<br> publications, it shall be greatly appreciated to include an explicit<br> reference. The preferred form is the following:<br><br> [ref] A. Kokalj, Comp. Mater. Sci., Vol. 28, p. 155, 2003.<br><span> Code available from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.xcrysden.org/">http://www.xcrysden.org/</a>.</span><br><br>TCL_LIBRARY=/home/Izaak/XCrySDen/XCrySDen-1.5.24-bin-semishared/external/lib/tcl8.5<br>XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/home/Izaak/XCrySDen/XCrySDen-1.5.24-bin-semishared<br>XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/home/Izaak/xcrys-tmp/<br><br>./xcrysden: line 224: /home/Izaak/XCrySDen/XCrySDen-1.5.24-bin-semishared/bin/xcrys: cannot execute binary file<br><br>What does this error mean? What can I do to correct this? Also, I tried compiling XCrySDen-1.5.24-bin-shared but the same error
occurred.<br><br>Thanks<br><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br></span>-- <span style="font-family: monospace;"><br></span>Izaak Williamson<span style="font-family: monospace;"><br></span>Research Assistant<span style="font-family: monospace;"><br></span>Physics Department<span style="font-family: monospace;"><br></span>Boise State University<br></div>
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