diff --git a/deployment/linux/create_bundle_centos5.py b/deployment/linux/create_bundle_centos5.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd141cba74437a0c150775e275459c83a14abb7e
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+++ b/deployment/linux/create_bundle_centos5.py
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+import os
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import string
+import sys
+import datetime
+import sip
+import PyQt4
+
+
+# parameters that can be modified
+qt4_plugins_location='/usr/lib/qt47/plugins'
+qt4_qmake_location='/usr/lib/qt47/bin/qmake'
+ssl_crypto_location='/lib/'
+chemlib_dictionary_location='/home/bundler/ost/ChemLib/1.2.2/compounds.chemlib'
+list_of_excluded_libraries=[
+'ld-linux',
+'libexpat',
+'libgcc_s',
+'libglib',
+'cmov',
+'libice',
+'libdl',
+'libGLU',
+'libelf',
+'libpthread',
+'libstdc++',
+'libSM',
+'libX',
+'libg',
+'libGL.so',
+'libfontconfig',
+'libfreetype',
+'libdrm',
+'libxcb',
+'libICE',
+'libnvidia',
+'libc',
+'libuuid'
+]
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+  print 'usage: create_bundle.py  additional_label'
+  sys.exit()
+
+additional_label=sys.argv[1]
+
+currdir=os.getcwd()
+if currdir.find('deployment')==-1 or currdir.find('linux')==-1:
+  print '\n'
+  print 'ERROR: Please run this script from the deployment/linux directory'
+  print '\n'
+  sys.exit()
+
+print "WARNING: If this script does not run to completion, please run 'git reset --hard HEAD' in the main directory (two up from here) before restarting"
+
+system_python_version=sys.version_info
+system_python_executable='python'+str(system_python_version[0])+'.'+str(system_python_version[1])
+system_python_bin='/usr/bin/'+system_python_executable
+system_python_libs='/usr/lib/'+system_python_executable
+qt4_module_location=os.path.dirname(PyQt4.__file__)
+sip_module_location=os.path.dirname(sip.__file__)
+print '\n'
+print '\n'
+print 'Detecting architecture and revision'
+uname_output=subprocess.Popen('uname -a', shell=True, cwd='../../',stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
+uname_line=uname_output.readlines()
+if uname_line[0].find('x86_64') !=-1:
+  libdir='lib64'
+  archstring='64bit'
+else: 
+  libdir='lib'
+  archstring='32bit'
+directory_name='openstructure-linux-'+archstring+'-'+additional_label
+print 'Hardcoding package python binary path in openstructure executables'
+subprocess.call('rm -f scripts/ost_config.in.pre* scripts/ost_config.in.backup',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('mv scripts/ost_config.in scripts/ost_config.in.backup',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('sed "s/@PYTHON_BINARY@/\$DNG_ROOT\/bin\/python/g" scripts/ost_config.in.backup > scripts/ost_config.in.preprepre',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('sed "s/\#export PYTHONHOME/ export PYTHONHOME/g" scripts/ost_config.in.preprepre > scripts/ost_config.in.prepre',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('sed "s/\#export PYTHONPATH/ export PYTHONPATH/g" scripts/ost_config.in.prepre > scripts/ost_config.in.pre',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('sed "s/\#export QT_PLUGIN_PATH/ export QT_PLUGIN_PATH/g" scripts/ost_config.in.pre > scripts/ost_config.in',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Compiling Openstructure'
+subprocess.call('cmake ./ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE='+qt4_qmake_location+' -DPREFIX='+directory_name+' -DCOMPOUND_LIB='+chemlib_dictionary_location+' -DENABLE_IMG=ON -DUSE_RPATH=ON -DENABLE_GUI=ON -DENABLE_GFX=ON -DOPTIMIZE=ON',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('make -j2',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Removing obsolete packages and package directory'
+subprocess.call('rm -fr openstructure-linux*',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Creating new package directory'
+subprocess.call('mkdir '+directory_name,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('mkdir '+directory_name+'/bin',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy python executable into stage for dependency detection'
+subprocess.call('cp '+system_python_bin+ ' stage/bin/python',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy python libraries into the stage for dependency detection'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+system_python_libs+' stage/'+libdir+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('rm -fr stage/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/dist-packages',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+sip_module_location+'/sip* stage/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+qt4_module_location+' stage/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy boost program option libraries into the stage for dependency detection'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL /usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so* stage/'+libdir+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Creating new dependency list'
+so_list=[]
+walk_list=os.walk('../../stage')
+for dir_entry in walk_list:
+  for file_entry in dir_entry[2]:
+    if file_entry.find('.so')==len(file_entry)-3 or file_entry=='gosty':
+      filepath=os.path.join(dir_entry[0],file_entry)
+      so_list.append(filepath)  
+dep_list=[]
+for so_entry in so_list:
+   dep=subprocess.Popen('perl ./ldd-rec.pl '+so_entry,shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,cwd='./').stdout
+   dep_so_entry=dep.readlines()
+   for dep_entry in dep_so_entry:
+     dep_list.append(dep_entry[:-1]) 
+sorted_dep_list=sorted(list(set(dep_list)))
+print 'Filtering system libraries from depenedency list'
+filtered_dep_list=[]
+for entry in sorted_dep_list:
+   exclude=False
+   for exclusion in list_of_excluded_libraries:
+     if entry.find(exclusion)!=-1:
+       exclude=True
+   if exclude==False: 
+     filtered_dep_list.append(entry)
+print 'Installing OpenStructure into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('make install',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy libraries in the package directory structure'
+for entry in filtered_dep_list:
+  subprocess.call('cp '+entry+' '+directory_name+'/'+libdir,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy python executable into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp '+system_python_bin+ ' '+directory_name+'/bin/python',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy python libraries into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+system_python_libs+' '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('rm -fr '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/dist-packages',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+sip_module_location+'/sip* '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+qt4_module_location+' '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy Qt 4 plugins into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+qt4_plugins_location+' '+directory_name+'/bin/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copying supplementary material into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL  stage/share/openstructure  '+directory_name+'/share/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copying examples into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL  examples  '+directory_name+'/share/openstructure/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copying ReadMe file into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp deployment/README.html '+directory_name,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Creating executables at the top level of the package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('ln -sf bin/dng ./dng',shell=True,cwd='../../'+directory_name)
+subprocess.call('ln -sf bin/ost ./ost',shell=True,cwd='../../'+directory_name)
+subprocess.call('ln -sf bin/lddt ./lddt',shell=True,cwd='../../'+directory_name)
+print 'Copying additional libraries in the package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp '+ssl_crypto_location+'/libssl.so* '+directory_name+'/'+libdir,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp '+ssl_crypto_location+'/libcrypto.so* '+directory_name+'/'+libdir,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL /usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so* '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copying python headers in the package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('mkdir -p '+directory_name+'/local/include/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -r /usr/include/'+system_python_executable+' '+directory_name+'/local/include/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Stripping pyc files from bundle'
+subprocess.call('rm -rf $(find . -name *.pyc)',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'removing dokk and harmony examples from bundle'
+subprocess.call('rm -rf '+directory_name+'/share/openstructure/examples/code_fragments/dokk',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('rm -rf '+directory_name+'/share/openstructure/examples/code_fragments/harmony',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Compressing the bundle'
+subprocess.call('tar cfz '+directory_name+'.tgz '+directory_name,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print "Done. Please run 'git reset --hard HEAD' in the top directory before restarting."
+
diff --git a/deployment/linux/create_bundle_centos6.py b/deployment/linux/create_bundle_centos6.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..48fc8596dfc9b1ec88be7470721f153ffd824ebd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/linux/create_bundle_centos6.py
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+import os
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import string
+import sys
+import datetime
+import sip
+import PyQt4
+
+
+# parameters that can be modified
+qt4_plugins_location='/usr/lib/qt4/plugins'
+qt4_qmake_location='/usr/lib/qt4/bin/qmake'
+ssl_crypto_location='/usr/lib/'
+chemlib_dictionary_location='/home/bundler/ost/ChemLib/1.2.2/compounds.chemlib'
+list_of_excluded_libraries=[
+'ld-linux',
+'libexpat',
+'libgcc_s',
+'libglib',
+'cmov',
+'libice',
+'libdl',
+'libGLU',
+'libelf',
+'libpthread',
+'libstdc++',
+'libSM',
+'libX',
+'libg',
+'libGL.so',
+'libfontconfig',
+'libfreetype',
+'libdrm',
+'libxcb',
+'libICE',
+'libnvidia',
+'libc',
+'libuuid'
+]
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+  print 'usage: create_bundle.py  additional_label'
+  sys.exit()
+
+additional_label=sys.argv[1]
+
+currdir=os.getcwd()
+if currdir.find('deployment')==-1 or currdir.find('linux')==-1:
+  print '\n'
+  print 'ERROR: Please run this script from the deployment/linux directory'
+  print '\n'
+  sys.exit()
+
+print "WARNING: If this script does not run to completion, please run 'git reset --hard HEAD' in the main directory (two up from here) before restarting"
+
+system_python_version=sys.version_info
+system_python_executable='python'+str(system_python_version[0])+'.'+str(system_python_version[1])
+system_python_bin='/usr/bin/'+system_python_executable
+system_python_libs='/usr/lib/'+system_python_executable
+qt4_module_location=os.path.dirname(PyQt4.__file__)
+sip_module_location=os.path.dirname(sip.__file__)
+print '\n'
+print '\n'
+print 'Detecting architecture and revision'
+uname_output=subprocess.Popen('uname -a', shell=True, cwd='../../',stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
+uname_line=uname_output.readlines()
+if uname_line[0].find('x86_64') !=-1:
+  libdir='lib64'
+  archstring='64bit'
+else: 
+  libdir='lib'
+  archstring='32bit'
+directory_name='openstructure-linux-'+archstring+'-'+additional_label
+print 'Hardcoding package python binary path in openstructure executables'
+subprocess.call('rm -f scripts/ost_config.in.pre* scripts/ost_config.in.backup',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('mv scripts/ost_config.in scripts/ost_config.in.backup',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('sed "s/@PYTHON_BINARY@/\$DNG_ROOT\/bin\/python/g" scripts/ost_config.in.backup > scripts/ost_config.in.preprepre',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('sed "s/\#export PYTHONHOME/ export PYTHONHOME/g" scripts/ost_config.in.preprepre > scripts/ost_config.in.prepre',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('sed "s/\#export PYTHONPATH/ export PYTHONPATH/g" scripts/ost_config.in.prepre > scripts/ost_config.in.pre',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('sed "s/\#export QT_PLUGIN_PATH/ export QT_PLUGIN_PATH/g" scripts/ost_config.in.pre > scripts/ost_config.in',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Compiling Openstructure'
+subprocess.call('cmake ./ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE='+qt4_qmake_location+' -DPREFIX='+directory_name+' -DCOMPOUND_LIB='+chemlib_dictionary_location+' -DENABLE_IMG=ON -DUSE_RPATH=ON -DENABLE_GUI=ON -DENABLE_GFX=ON -DOPTIMIZE=ON',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('make -j2',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Removing obsolete packages and package directory'
+subprocess.call('rm -fr openstructure-linux*',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Creating new package directory'
+subprocess.call('mkdir '+directory_name,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('mkdir '+directory_name+'/bin',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy python executable into stage for dependency detection'
+subprocess.call('cp '+system_python_bin+ ' stage/bin/python',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy python libraries into the stage for dependency detection'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+system_python_libs+' stage/'+libdir+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('rm -fr stage/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/dist-packages',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+sip_module_location+'/sip* stage/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+qt4_module_location+' stage/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy boost program option libraries into the stage for dependency detection'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL /usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so* stage/'+libdir+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Creating new dependency list'
+so_list=[]
+walk_list=os.walk('../../stage')
+for dir_entry in walk_list:
+  for file_entry in dir_entry[2]:
+    if file_entry.find('.so')==len(file_entry)-3 or file_entry=='gosty':
+      filepath=os.path.join(dir_entry[0],file_entry)
+      so_list.append(filepath)  
+dep_list=[]
+for so_entry in so_list:
+   dep=subprocess.Popen('perl ./ldd-rec.pl '+so_entry,shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,cwd='./').stdout
+   dep_so_entry=dep.readlines()
+   for dep_entry in dep_so_entry:
+     dep_list.append(dep_entry[:-1]) 
+sorted_dep_list=sorted(list(set(dep_list)))
+print 'Filtering system libraries from depenedency list'
+filtered_dep_list=[]
+for entry in sorted_dep_list:
+   exclude=False
+   for exclusion in list_of_excluded_libraries:
+     if entry.find(exclusion)!=-1:
+       exclude=True
+   if exclude==False: 
+     filtered_dep_list.append(entry)
+print 'Installing OpenStructure into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('make install',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy libraries in the package directory structure'
+for entry in filtered_dep_list:
+  subprocess.call('cp '+entry+' '+directory_name+'/'+libdir,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy python executable into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp '+system_python_bin+ ' '+directory_name+'/bin/python',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy python libraries into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+system_python_libs+' '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('rm -fr '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/dist-packages',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+sip_module_location+'/sip* '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+qt4_module_location+' '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/'+system_python_executable+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copy Qt 4 plugins into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL '+qt4_plugins_location+' '+directory_name+'/bin/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copying supplementary material into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL  stage/share/openstructure  '+directory_name+'/share/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copying examples into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL  examples  '+directory_name+'/share/openstructure/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copying ReadMe file into package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp deployment/README.html '+directory_name,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Creating executables at the top level of the package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('ln -sf bin/dng ./dng',shell=True,cwd='../../'+directory_name)
+subprocess.call('ln -sf bin/ost ./ost',shell=True,cwd='../../'+directory_name)
+subprocess.call('ln -sf bin/lddt ./lddt',shell=True,cwd='../../'+directory_name)
+print 'Copying additional libraries in the package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('cp '+ssl_crypto_location+'/libssl.so* '+directory_name+'/'+libdir,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp '+ssl_crypto_location+'/libcrypto.so* '+directory_name+'/'+libdir,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -pRL /usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so* '+directory_name+'/'+libdir+'/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Copying python headers in the package directory structure'
+subprocess.call('mkdir -p '+directory_name+'/local/include/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('cp -r /usr/include/'+system_python_executable+' '+directory_name+'/local/include/',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Stripping pyc files from bundle'
+subprocess.call('rm -rf $(find . -name *.pyc)',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'removing dokk and harmony examples from bundle'
+subprocess.call('rm -rf '+directory_name+'/share/openstructure/examples/code_fragments/dokk',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+subprocess.call('rm -rf '+directory_name+'/share/openstructure/examples/code_fragments/harmony',shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print 'Compressing the bundle'
+subprocess.call('tar cfz '+directory_name+'.tgz '+directory_name,shell=True,cwd='../../')
+print "Done. Please run 'git reset --hard HEAD' in the top directory before restarting."
+