Installing plugins in ATK 12.8

[ams_nanolab]

Dear Sir,

I recently installed ATK 12.8 in an RHEL server. I cannot install the buckle, twist etc. plugins as described in the thread http://quantumwise.com/forum/index.php?topic=1791.0#.UMXwRKxgWZQ

when I point to the zip file under Local Install and cotinue nothing happens.

Is the zip file OS/ ATK version dependent? Could u kindly give link for the right zip file for ATK 12.8 on Linux ?

[Anders Blom]

First of all, are you really sure "nothing" happens? There is no message (perhaps there should be) that the addon installation is successful, only if it's not. So if you scroll down and look in the list of installed addons, maybe you will find that FunWithGraphene is actually in the list?

[ams_nanolab]

Ya, I have checked that already, no message appears about success or failure to install, further no new add on appears on the list, even after restarting ATK. 

[Anders Blom]

Ok, we'll have to investigate a bit. Which Linux, precisely?

You can always install an addon manually. Just unzip the zip file in the AddOns directory (which is vnl/lib/python2.7/site-packages/AddOns inside the installation tree).

[ams_nanolab]

We are using RHEL 64bit version.

I have manualy unzipped the files in the said directory, now everything's working fine and peachy. Thanks 

[ams_nanolab]

what would be the installation directory for the add-ons for ATK 12.8.1 running on win 64 bit.

[Anders Blom]

Plugins should reside in "vnl/lib/site-packages/AddOns" to be located automatically.

It is in principle possible to place plugins elsewhere too, if really necessary (if you don't have permissions to the main install dirs, for instance).