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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 17:39:34 CST

Hi Ioana,
  It sounds like you happen to have a PYTHONPATH that might
be clashing with VMD? Can you do a "printenv" from within
your VMD text console and email it to us at vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
(i.e. printenv > foo.txt, then mail us foo.txt...)

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:29:25PM -0800, Ioana Cozmuta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a new VMD user. I've downloaded from the web the
> IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
> from Version 1.8b2 (18-Nov-2002).
>
> I used the following options in the configuration file
> IRIX6 OPENGL CAVE FREEVR ACTC FLTK TK IMD SPACEBALL VRPN TCL PYTHON
> PTHREADS SILENT LP64
>
> I want to use the AtomSel command that is under the python interface so
> I type gopython at the prompter. However I get the following error message
>
>
> vmd > gopython
> Info) Starting Python...
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Info) Text interpreter now Python
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: No module named Tkinter
>
> Could anyone give me a hint how to solve this problem?
>
> Thank you,
> Ioana 

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