None required

Here is the procedure followed to install FASTA from its source code:

• The source code archive was downloaded and put under /home/bioubuntu, decompressed and the created folder is moved toward /opt/bio/sources.

• This folder should belong to root and its permissions should be set at 755.

% sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bio/sources/fasta-35.4.8
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/fasta-35.4.8

• Get into the fasta-35.4.8 folder and simply compile:

% cd src
% sudo make -f ../make/Makefile.linux.sse2

• The applications located in fasta-35.4.8/bin are made available to all users by doing a modification of the /etc/profile file at the very end of the file:

#
# FASTA specific environment variable
#
PATH=/opt/bio/sources/fasta-35.4.8/bin:$PATH