Installing *HMMER v3

Download and unzip the version (from this program with a communist logo: http://hmmer.janelia.org/)

Navigate to the directory where you have moved your downloaded hmmer.. file and type the following commands into the terminal (in bold):

cd hmmer-3.1b1-macosx # move into new directory

./configure #configure

make #build

make check #run the automated tests

make install #install

Smoothest installation ever (assuming you have make)...