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From: Audrey Salazar (alsalazar_at_northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 13:42:35 CDT

Hello
I think that this answers my questions.

Thank you for your help.

Audrey

On 8/14/07, Audrey Salazar <alsalazar_at_northwestern.edu> wrote:
> 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
> --
> Audrey L. Salazar
> Amaral Research Group
> Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering Phone: 847.491.2188
> Northwestern University
> Evanston, IL USA
> 

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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