Helpful Programs to run LatticeFinder¶
LatticeFinder contains subsidary programs that you may find useful, especially for using LatticeFinder with VASP. In this article, we will introduce all of the programs that can be used with LatticeFinder. These programs can be run by typing the program you want to run into the terminal from whatever directory you are in.
The scripts and programs that we will be mentioned here are:
What to make sure is done before running any of these scripts.¶
If you installed LatticeFinder through pip3¶
If you installed the LatticeFinder program with pip3, these scripts will be installed in your bin. You do not need to add anything into your ~/.bashrc. You are all good to go.
If you performed a Manual installation¶
If you have manually added this program to your computer (such as cloning this program from Github), you will need to make sure that you have included the Subsidiary_Programs folder into your PATH in your ~/.bashrc file. All of these program can be found in the Subsidiary_Programs folder. To execute these programs from the Subsidiary_Programs folder, you must include the following in your ~/.bashrc:
export PATH_TO_LatticeFinder="<Path_to_LatticeFinder>"
where <Path_to_LatticeFinder>" is the path to get to the genetic algorithm program. Also include somewhere before this in your ~/.bashrc:
export PATH="$PATH_TO_LatticeFinder"/LatticeFinder/Subsidiary_Programs:$PATH
See more about this in Installation of LatticeFinder.