In order to install the binary package of TOPP, simply download and execute the installer from http://www.OpenMS.de and follow the instructions. Run the installer under the user account that later runs OpenMS - do NOT install using your admin account! You will be asked for an admin authentification, but only AFTER you start the installer as normal user.
The windows binary version works on many versions of windows including Win2000, WinXP, VISTA, Win7 and Win8. Installation should take you a few minutes only. We also supply a 64bit version, which can deal with larger LC-MS files, due to more allocatable system memory. If your operating system supports 64 bit and has more than 3 Gigabytes of RAM, we strongly encourage you to use the 64 bit version.
Problem:
During installation, an error message pops up, saying "The installation of the Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1' package failed! You must download and install it manually in order for Proteowizard to work.
Solution:
This should only happen if you selected to install the "Third Party - Proteowizard" components. The reason is usually that .NET 3.5 SP1 is
already installed (see Windows Control Panel). If it's not installed, follow the instructions of the error message.
Problem:
During installation, an error message pops up, saying "The installation of the Visual Studio redistributable package ... failed. ...".
Solution:
First of all, we'd like to stress that is a problem of a Microsoft package - we cannot do anything about it.
The error message will give you the location where the redistributable package was extracted to. Go to this folder and run the executable (usually named 'vcredistXXXX.exe') as an administrator (right-click -> Run-As). You will likely receive an error message (this is also the reason why the OpenMS setup complained about it). Now you have to find a solution yourself. If you're lucky the error message is instructive and the problem is easy to fix.
For some messages we have a recipe:
OpenMS / TOPP release 2.0.0 | Documentation generated on Wed Mar 30 2016 16:18:43 using doxygen 1.8.5 |