Compiling and Installing PLINK

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Run the following command to install the dependency software:

   yum install blas-devel lapack-devel atlas-devel perl-Digest-SHA -y

3. Run the following commands to create library file links:

   ln -s /usr/lib64/atlas/libtatlas.so.3.10 /usr/lib64/atlas/libatlas.so

   ln -s /usr/lib64/atlas/libsatlas.so.3.10 /usr/lib64/atlas/libcblas.so

4. Run the following command to go to the planned PLINK installation directory and decompress the source code package:

   cd /path/to/PLINK && tar -zxf master.tar.gz

5. Run the following command to move the zlib source code package to the specified directory:

   mv zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz plink-ng-master

6. Run the following command to switch to the installation directory and modify the configuration file:

   cd plink-ng-master/1.9 && sed -i '0,/curl/s/curl/# curl/g' plink_first_compile

7. Run the following command to switch to the directory generated after decompression:

   ./plink_first_compile

8. Run the following command to configure the environment variable:

   export PATH=/path/to/PLINK/plink-ng-master/1.9:$PATH