How are folks running cactus?

[crcardenas]

I thought I would try using cactus using some mitogenomes locally for some ideas I have with other data types. However, I keep getting stuck after what seems like the installation steps.

I followed these instructions, and am able to succesffuly install and run the software with docker on a Debian System. But I get the pipes package is missing error. I tried compiling the binaries locally as well, but this fails, it was unable to build essential commands like cactus-pangenome even though the cactus/bin has many options (and the catus/bin exists in my path system variable).

I see that the python package issue is supposed to be fixed in a future updated. But, how are folks actually running this tool?

system info

$ cactus --v
7.0.0

$ python --version
Python 3.13.2
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64