penguin cradling an ellipsoidThe 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).

Version including only the HPGL and Postscript options


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).

Version including only the HPGL and Postscript options


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


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).


A simple SHELX to ORTEP converter module

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