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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2008 - 15:33:25 CST

Hi,
  Can you check to make sure you don't have any syntax errors in your
personal .cshrc file and any scripts it sources? Alternately, you can
try running VMD as a different user and see if that works fine.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:52:39PM +0200, Satyan Sharma wrote:
> Hi VMD experts,
> I am trying to install VMD 1.8.6 on my PC (Mandriva2008)
> After downloading the tar.gz file I did gunzip and tar-xvf on the
> respective files.
> The I continued with configure and make install as mentioned in the README
> file.
>
> Here is what i see on configure
> [root_at_localhost vmd-1.8.5]# ./configure
> using configure.options: LINUX OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC IMD SPACEBALL
> LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILEN
>
> And after make install:
> [root_at_localhost src]# make install
> Make sure /usr/local/bin/vmd is in your path.
> VMD installation complete. Enjoy!
>
> But when i try to run vmd
> [satyan_at_localhost ~]$ vmd
> Bad : modifier in $ (/).
> - this is the error i face.
> Any suggestions.
>
> Cheers,
> Satyan Sharma 

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