Get the ViennaRNA Package

You can either get the required package, depending on which operating system you run (precompiled package is availaible for distinct distributions like Fedora, Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows) or you compile the source code yourself. Here we are compiling the programs ourself. Have a look at the file INSTALL distributed with the ViennaRNA Package for more detail or read the documentation on the url.

Subsequently the instructions for building the source code are:

1. Go to your Tutorials folder and create a directory

   	$ cd ..
           $ mkdir downloads
           $ cd downloads
   

2. Download the ViennaRNA Package from http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~ronny/RNA/index.html and save it in to the newly created directory.
3. Unpack the gzipped tar archive by running: (Replace [2.1.1] with the actual version number)

          $ tar -zxf ViennaRNA-[2.1.1].tar.gz
   

4. list the content of the directory

          $ ls -F
            ViennaRNA-[2.1.1]/  ViennaRNA-[2.1.1].tar.gz