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Installation on Docker¶

In order to install the program, you need to install Docker first.

Installing Docker¶

To install Docker follow the docker website instructions and post-install instructions.

For Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl
sudo curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh

For Windows: you might need to do more steps as described here

You need to add a user to docker group in order to give docker run permission to the user

sudo groupadd docker                
sudo usermod -aG docker [username] # replace [username] with your user name

You need to have the muscle.sh script available in order to update, and run a Muscle X program on docker. You can download muscle.sh by

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/biocatiit/musclex/master/musclex.sh -o musclex.sh

Make it executable by

chmod +x musclex.sh

Run this command to install or update Muscle X programs on Docker

./musclex.sh update

Running the program by running musclex.sh following by a program shortcut

./musclex.sh [program shortcut]

For example, run this command to run Bio-Muscle

./musclex.sh bm