<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Dear Sir</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I am trying to install QE on a dell laptop which fullfil all requirements (Compilers,,,,libraries)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I am not very good at linux , pls help<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>I followed the following steps</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>tar zxvf espresso-4.3.2.tar.gz</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>gunzip -c espresso-4.3.2.tar.gz</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">cd espresso-4.3.2</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">./configure</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">make
all</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">gedit .bashrc &</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">PATH=$PATH:/home/sohail/es<span class="tab">presso/espresso-4.3.2/bin<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">i downloaded example file and extracted within espresso-4.3.2 and named Examples<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;">till this i didnot find any error</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">All other required things are available<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">After that i went to directory Examples/examples and tried to run to check <br><span></span></div>/home/sohail/espresso/espresso-4.3.2/Examples/examples<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">i am getting following error</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">/home/sohail/espresso/espresso-4.3.2/Examples/examples/example01 : starting</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This example shows how to use pw.x to
calculate the total energy and</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the band structure of four simple systems: Si, Al, Cu, Ni.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> executables directory: /home/sohail/espresso/espresso-4.3.2/Examples/bin</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> pseudo directory: /home/sohail/espresso/espresso-4.3.2/Examples/pseudo</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> temporary directory: /home/sohail/tmp</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> checking that needed directories and files exist...</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ERROR: /home/sohail/espresso/espresso-4.3.2/Examples/bin not existent or not a directory</span><br style="font-weight:
bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aborting</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br>/home/sohail/espresso/espresso-4.3.2/Examples/examples/example02 : starting<br><br>This example shows how to use pw.x and ph.x to calculate phonon<br>frequencies at Gamma and X for Si and C in the diamond structure and<br>for fcc-Ni.<br><br> executables directory: /home/sohail/espresso/espresso-4.3.2/Examples/bin<br> pseudo directory: /home/sohail/espresso/espresso-4.3.2/Examples/pseudo<br> temporary directory: /home/sohail/tmp<br><br> checking that needed directories and files exist...<br>ERROR: /home/sohail/espresso/espresso-4.3.2/Examples/bin not existent or not a directory<br>Aborting<br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------- <br><br><b><font size="4" color="#0000ff">Dr. Sohail Ahmad</font></b></div><div><font color="#0000ff">Assistant
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