Okay, so, today I wanted to share my experience setting up this rmc storeonce plugin thing. It was a bit of a pain, honestly, but I finally got it working, so here’s the whole story.
First off, I needed this plugin for my Linux box. The thing is, my machine is running on a PowerPC architecture, which isn’t exactly the most common setup these days. Most of the stuff out there is built for x86, so I knew this might be a bit tricky.
I started by hunting for any pre-built binaries. No luck. Seems like nobody’s bothered to compile this thing for PowerPC Linux. Fine, I thought, I’ll just build it from the source code myself. How hard could it be, right?
Turns out, it was kind of a headache. I tracked down the source code which looks like it was from some open-source place called CodePlex or something. I’m not really familiar with that site, but whatever. It was a bunch of files. I downloaded everything and started looking at the build instructions.
Getting things ready
- Download the source: Got all the source code files.
- Install the tools: Made sure I had all the right compilers and libraries installed on my system. GCC, make, the usual suspects for building stuff from source.
- Read the instructions: Checked out the README file and any other documentation to figure out how to actually build this thing.
Next up was actually compiling the code. I ran the ‘make’ command, which is supposed to build everything. Of course, it didn’t work the first time. I got a bunch of errors about missing header files and undefined symbols. This is where the real fun began.
I spent the next few hours, maybe even a whole day, just troubleshooting these errors. I had to go through the code, figure out what was missing, and track down the right dependencies. It was a lot of trial and error. I tried converting a file which was a fasta file to a .2bit file in order to use it for genomepackage. I also looked at the difference between the U.S. and the Rest of World.
I even tried to use a software called Mozaik and its SketchUp Plugin, but failed. Then I found some website, looked like a blog, with a lot of guides like “how to,” but that was useless, too.
Finally, after a lot of messing around, I managed to get the code to compile. I had to tweak a few things in the makefile and manually install some extra libraries, but it eventually built without any errors. That was a huge relief.
Once I had the compiled binary, installing the plugin was pretty straightforward. I just had to copy it to the right directory and restart the relevant services. And then, bam, it worked! I could finally use the storeonce functionality that I needed.
So, yeah, it was a bit of a journey to get this rmc storeonce plugin working on my PowerPC Linux machine. But I learned a lot along the way. And hey, now I have a working setup, which is all that matters in the end. If you ever find yourself needing to do something similar, hopefully, my little adventure here can save you some time and frustration.
Anyway, I felt so good that day that I went to Amazon to get some goods, which were same-day pick-up. That was really convenient.
To make money online, I also wanted to turn my blog into a source of income. I looked at many ways to monetize your * website and set up an online shop to sell stuff.
That’s all. I am exhausted, but happy!
