Hi everyone,
I have correctly compiled and tested Alamode, but after setting the environment variable ALAMODE_DIR to point to the root directory of Alamode as shown in the help file, I encountered the following error message during the call. Could you please give some advice？
It’s hard to know what’s going on here without having access to your computer. The obvious thing is to make sure that your alamode distribution is in /home/etc/alamode-1.3.0 as specified. In other words there should be a sub-directory called “alm” that contains an executable called “alm”. Try typing:
ls /home/etc/alamode-1.3.0/alm/alm
If you get a response that includes “No such file or directory” this means that you haven’t installed Alamode in the place you’ve specified & hence the problem.
Thank you, Professor! I can now use alamode normally, but I have a problem. When I set ala_mode to displace , it only outputs cubic_DFEST , but not harmonic_DFSET . Also, when I set ala_mode to fit_harmonic , it doesn’t output or modify any files (shouldn’t it generate a harmonic.xml file?). What could be the issue? 
When GULP runs alamode the setup is to compute the thermal conductivity & so a file that ends cubic.xml is produced. I think you’ll need to check the Alamode documentation to find out how to generate the harmonic.xml (perhaps by only doing a force constant calculation).