Universal Binary Version of Dot
October 13th, 2009Tags: taverna | Posted in Mac | No Comments »
I use Taverna workbench a lot in a project I’m doing right now. After upgraded to Snow Leopard which does not provide Rosette by default anymore, I found that “dot”, the program shipped with Taverna 2.1 Beta 2 used for drawing workflows, was not Universial Binary yet.
No need to say I want to use Taverna, but I don’t want to use install Rosette. Since dot is part of Graphviz, we need to install a Universal Binary version of graphviz.
The first way is build it by yourself. It can be hard, but if you use macports that would be easy. This will be great and convenient if you build every unix program with macports, otherwise you’ll get a lot more than what you need. For me, 400+ Mb of libraries and programs installed by macports.
The other way is using Graphviz compiled by Glen Low or by Ryan Schmidt. These two packages will install Graphviz and necessary libraries to the system. Glens’ has a higher version (2.20.3), but either of above should works fine for you.
After installed Graphviz, we can assign a dot location in Taverna’s preferences.