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Before running ARB you must set ARBHOME and add ARB to your PATH
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You have two options (A is easier, B is more difficult):

A) Easy - open a new terminal window and type arb_macsetup to set the necessary environment variables automatically. This script also enables keyboard shortcuts used in the sequence editor.

or

B) More difficult - follow the steps below:

1)
bash users add the following lines to your ~/.profile or to your ~/.bashrc

ARBHOME=${prefix}/share/arb;export ARBHOME
PATH=${prefix}/share/arb/bin:$PATH
export PATH

enter the following command:
. ~/.profile
2)
tcsh users add the following lines to your ~/.cshrc

setenv ARBHOME ${prefix}/share/arb
setenv PATH ${prefix}/share/arb:$PATH

enter the following command:
source ~/.cshrc

C) to set up ARB for another user on this computer log into their account and type ${prefix}/bin/arb_macsetup

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You can set up keyboard shortcuts manually by creating a text file in your home folder called .xmodmap that contains the text below:
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clear Mod1
clear Mod2
keycode 63 = Mode_switch
keycode 66 = Meta_L
keycode 69 = Meta_R
add Mod1 = Meta_L Meta_R
add Mod2 = Mode_switch

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Use keys Control+Command Arrow Key to jump over bases
Use Keys Option Arrow Key to pull in bases across alignment gaps
Use the right Command Key plus a letter key to activate a menu item
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Type 'arb' to start using ARB
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A demo data base is located at ${prefix}/share/arb/demo.arb

User generated macros, arb_tcp.dat and pt_servers have been preserved,
but you should keep backups of these just in case. They are located at:

${prefix}/share/arb/lib/macros/
${prefix}/share/arb/lib/arb_tcp.dat
${prefix}/share/arb/lib/pts/

Default settings are maintained at:

${prefix}/share/arb/lib/macros.default/
${prefix}/share/arb/lib/arb_tcp.dat.default

These notes can be viewed at any time by typing 'port notes arb'

Please cite: Wolfgang Ludwig, et al. (2004) ARB: a software environment for sequence data. Nucleic Acids Research. 32:1363-1371