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 === other programs: [[XDS-Viewer]], [[XDSSTAT]], [[XDSCC12]], [[XDSGUI]], [[XSCALE_ISOCLUSTER]], [[spot2pdb]], [[generate_XDS.INP]]  ===
-... can be downloaded from https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/ . A simple way to obtain them is to create an empty folder, "cd" to that folder and then (as root)
+... can be downloaded from https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/ . A simple way to obtain them is to create an empty folder, "cd" to that folder and then
   wget https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/get_folder.sh
   chmod +x get_folder.sh
   ./get_folder.sh
-You may repeat this, as root, every now and then, to update the programs.
+You may repeat this every now and then to update the programs.
-If you don't have root privileges, you may simply link the downloaded programs to your $HOME/bin. In that case, make sure that $HOME/bin is in your $PATH.
+As root, the script copies the programs into /usr/local/bin/linux_bin, and links them to /usr/local/bin. As a normal user, they are downloaded to $HOME/bin/linux_bin, and linked to your $HOME/bin. In the latter case, make sure that $HOME/bin is in your $PATH.
-A Qt4 version of xds-viewer is available as xds-viewer.qt4, for old Linux distributions.
+Qt4 versions of xdsgui and xds-viewer are available as xdsgui.qt4 and xds-viewer.qt4, for old Linux distributions.
 === tools and helper programs for [[generate_XDS.INP]] and [[XDSGUI]], and libraries ===