Hi Peter, Unfortunately, I am not an advanced developer in python. Although, I have 'Cygwin' in my system. Any heads up on that will be greatly appreciated? Regards, Prasun Dutta MSc (Bioinformatics) School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh, UK ________________________________ From: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> To: Prasun Dutta <prasundutta87@yahoo.co.in> Cc: "galaxy-dev@bx.psu.edu" <galaxy-dev@bx.psu.edu> Sent: Friday, 1 February 2013 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] install Galaxy in Windows (URGENT) On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Prasun Dutta <prasundutta87@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Hi,

I have Windows Vista and 8 in two separate laptops. I need to install a local version of Galaxy server in both the systems. I am unable to understand or follow the instructions given in your website (http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Get%20Galaxy). Could you kindly help me or just explain me stepwise how to install it in my system?

Regards, Prasun Dutta

Quoting that page, "The installation procedure is simple and is nearly identical for UNIX/Linux and Mac OS X. We are no longer supporting the Windows platform with our distribution, so you will have to build your own Python eggs if you want to install it on Windows (see Admin/Config/Windows for some tips). Of course, Windows users can use our public Galaxy server from their browsers." Right now you *can't* install Galaxy on Windows. Only if you were an experienced Python developer with cross-platform experience would it even be worth trying. The idea is you just run a web-browser on your (Windows) Laptop, and connect to Galaxy running on a (Linux) server. Just like you should be able to use your  (Windows) Laptop to connect to the public Galaxy at http://usegalaxy.org Peter

On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Peter Cock wrote:

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Prasun Dutta <prasundutta87@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

...

Hi Peter,

Unfortunately, I am not an advanced developer in python. Although, I have 'Cygwin' in my system. Any heads up on that will be greatly appreciated?

Cygwin is a useful system for running Unix/Linux tools under Windows, and according to this old email from Nate you would need to use it: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2010-November/003671.html

More recently a couple of people tried this and ran into problems: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2011-October/007132.html http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2011-October/007180.html http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2011-October/007182.html

For the simplest install and maintenance, choose what the Galaxy team use: Linux

Even if you can get the framework to run, many tools with C dependencies are going to be a nightmare to use since the dependencies will almost certainly not compile. The easiest solution these days if you really have no access to a Linux system (the cloud is a good choice here) is probably to install Linux in a VM on your Windows system. This can be done for free with a VM platform like VirtualBox. --nate

Regards,

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