Installing a Pre-Compiled Version of VMD

To install the pre-compiled Windows version of VMD, simply run the self-extracting executable, and it will start the VMD Windows installer program, which includes built-in help. This process is automated and should be familiar to most Windows users. When installing VMD be sure that you have administrator privileges.

To install the pre-compiled MacOS X bundle version of VMD, open the VMD disk image and drag the VMD application into an appropriate directory. Once the VMD application has been placed appropriately it should be ready for immediate use as no other installation steps are required.

To install the pre-compiled Unix version of VMD, then only three steps remain to be done after you uncompress and untar the distribution.

• Edit the configure script. If necessary, change the following values:

       $install_bin_dir
  

  	  This is the location of the startup script 'vmd'.  It should
  	  be located in the path of users interested in running VMD.
  

       $install_library_dir
  

  	  This is the location of all other VMD files.  This includes
  	  the binary and helper scripts.  It should not be in the path.
  

• Next generate the Makefile based on these configuration variables. This is done by running ./configure .
• After configuration is complete, cd to the src directory and type make install. This will put the code in the two directories listed above. After this, you just type vmd to begin, provided that vmd is in your path.