Installation

Stable Release: DIALS 3.22.1

The current stable release can be downloaded from Github, where you can also find further release notes.

DIALS 3.22.1 Linux installer

Development Builds

Nightly build installers are available for Linux and Mac OS. For instructions on compiling from source or setting up a DIALS development environment, see Installation for Developers.

Mac installerLinux installer

Installation

Mac graphical binary installers

We provide a graphical package installer for Mac users. Download the Mac OS X installer and double click the .pkg file to start the graphical installer. Follow the instructions, which will install DIALS in the /Applications/ directory. To use DIALS, open a new terminal window and type, e.g.:

source /Applications/dials-dev20150903/dials_env.sh

to setup the DIALS environment.

Mac and Linux binary installers

We provide binary tar.gz and tar.xz files for various Mac and Linux platforms, e.g. on Linux:

wget https://dials.diamond.ac.uk/diamond_builds/dials-linux-x86_64-conda3.tar.xz
tar -xJf dials-linux-x86_64-conda3.tar.xz
cd dials-installer-dev

Or on Mac:

curl https://dials.diamond.ac.uk/diamond_builds/dials-macosx-conda3.tar.gz > dials-macosx.tar.gz
tar -xzf dials-macosx.tar.gz
cd dials-installer-dev

Then to install in the /usr/local directory (you may need to add a sudo before the command):

./install

or to install in a specified directory:

./install --prefix=/path/to/installation/directory/

To use DIALS, open a new terminal window and type, e.g.:

source /path/to/installation/directory/dials-dev/dials_env.sh