The Linux ORTEP page

This page contains my semi-official binaries of the current version 1.0.3 of ORTEP for the Linux operating system. At the moment, only PC versions are available. Please send bug reports concerning these binaries to martin@ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de (and not to ORNL) unless you are certain that it is a general Ortep problem.

22.2.2004:New shlx2tep 1.0 - fixing a serious bug in the symmetry card generation function of all previous versions (wrong symmetry generated for structures combining centering and mirror planes) 8.11.2003:New (forgotten) shlx2tep (0.99) - handles LATT cards with lots of whitespace before the number (such as those written by PLATON)
28.8.2002:New shlx2tep - REM cards among the atom records would confuse shlx2tep
25.2.2002:New shlx2tep version (fixes missing -X/-Y/-Z symmetry card when only LATT was given for P-1 data)
6.8.2001:A new shlx2tep version, and i finally uploaded my modernised version of N.Yamazaki's XOrtep
Please contact me if there are problems with downloading from this site.

Libc5 versions:

Versions including X11 previewer based on PGPLOT 5.20

(The tar archives contain the necessary pgplot support files, and libpgplot.so where required - note that PGPLOT is free for non-commercial use only).

ortep103dyn5.tar.gz (227723 Bytes) Dynamically linked, requires libpgplot.so
ortep103pst5.tar.gz (173533 Bytes) Partially static (libpgplot linked in)
ortep103st5.tar.gz (314719 Bytes) Statically linked, requires no additional libraries

Version including only the HPGL and Postscript options

ortep103-libc5.gz (84731 Bytes) Dynamically linked executable.

Libc6 (glibc) versions:

Versions including X11 previewer based on PGPLOT 5.20

(The tar archives contain the necessary pgplot support files, and libpgplot.so where required - note that PGPLOT is free for non-commercial use only).

ortep103dyn6.tar.gz (239506 Bytes) Dynamically linked, requires libpgplot
ortep103pst6.tar.gz (183902 Bytes) Partially static (libpgplot linked in)
ortep103st6.tar.gz (495625 Bytes) Statically linked, requires no additional libraries

Version including only the HPGL and Postscript options

ortep103-libc6.gz (115711 Bytes) Dynamically linked executable.

A note on other programs that might be useful in this context

Ghostscript - a software interpreter for previewing and printing Postscript files
hp2xx - a software interpreter for previewing and printing HPGL plot files
ps2edit - a converter from Postscript to a Fig file for use with
XFig - a versatile drawing program for X11

An alternative X11/Ortep shell

This is a slightly modified version of the ortep-for-sun code that was written some years ago by Norimasa Yamazaki to provide an editor/previewer combination based on Sun's OpenView toolkit. (The original code is probably still available somewhere on ftp.osc.edu). I have only simplified his labelling code to work around a few huge memory leaks and adapted the code to Ortep III (and vice versa).

xortep3.tgz, Source code tarball
Xortep3.gz, gzip'd Linux/glibc executable (needs openview)
Xortep3_static.gz, statically linked Linux executable

A simple SHELX to ORTEP converter module

This was originally written by Mike Burnett of ORNL, and later modified (not necessarily improved) by me.

shlx2tep.f (21742 Bytes), the FORTRAN source file (1.0)
shlx2tep.f (21232 Bytes), the FORTRAN source file (0.99)
shlx2tep-glibc (62924 Bytes), glibc-2.2.5-based Linux/x86 binary
shlx2tep-s (461220 Bytes), Linux/x86 binary,statically linked