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From: Audrey Salazar (alsalazar_at_northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 11:07:38 CDT

Hello,
I am a first year grad student new to VMD. I would like to be able to
make images and movies in VMD 1.8.6. As MSMS is required by VMD to
make movies (according to page 1 of the VMD Images and Movies
tutorial), I installed MSMS. I tested the MSMS separately as suggested
by http://mgltools.scripps.edu/downloads (the page after this one,
doesn't want to load, but I clicked on the Unix/Linux i86 link) and
the output from MSMS is correct. This suggests that this program is
working as it should.

As I have previously built VMD from source code, I decided to do that
again. I followed the following instructions (from README file for
VMD 1.8.6):

For quick installation of the binary distribution for Unix do the following:
  1) Uncompress and untar the distribution into a working directory.
     In this working directory, there are several subdirectories such
     as bin, src, doc, data, as well as this README and a configure script.
     Change to this working directory after the unpacking is complete.

  2) Edit the file 'configure'; change the values for
     the $install_library_dir and $install_bin_dir to a directory in
     which vmd data files and executables should be installed, be sure
     that you installing into a clean target directory and not overwriting
     an existing version of VMD (which would otherwise give problems):

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

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

  3) A Makefile must be generated based on these configuration variables
     by running "./configure".

When I typed ./configure, I get the following oiutput:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "english"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
using configure.options: LINUX OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC IMD SPACEBALL
LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT

** From the last line, I am gathering that the config script did not
find MSMS. Am I correct in my assumption?

** How can I make sure that VMD is configured to work with MSMS? Do I
need to edit the configure.options file to include MSMS?

Thank you in advance.

Audrey Salazar 

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Audrey L. Salazar
Amaral Research Group
Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering      Phone: 847.491.2188
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL USA