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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2008 - 16:50:42 CDT

Katherine,
  One more question, what version of Linux are you running?
I built those python libs on an old Redhat 9 machine (which is now dead),
and I'm wondering if there's an incompatibility with shared libs on your
system, which is almost certainly newer.

Cheers,
  John

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:06:06PM -0400, Katherine Parra wrote:
> I downloaded pylib.linux.tar.gz<http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/pythonlib/vmd-1.8.4/pylib.linux.tar.gz>
> the library that matched the version of VMD that I'm using 1.8.6
> KP
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > Did you download the libraries that match the version of VMD you're using?
> > (both the VMD version number, and also the right 32-bit 64-bit libs?)
> > If you tell me the details of your installation and what you've installed
> > I should be able to assist you.
> >
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:16:28PM -0400, Katherine Parra wrote:
> > > Dear VMD community:
> > > I successfully downloaded one of the versions of python for linux from
> > the
> > > VMD python library, now everytime I start the python mode in the VMD
> > console
> > > I get the following error message:
> > >
> > > 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> > > ImportError: No module named types or
> > > ImportError: No module named numeric_version
> > >
> > > Besides some other messages like:
> > > Could not find Numeric Python version >=22.0
> > >
> > > Also if I try with:
> > > >>> import vmdnumpy, Numeric
> > > I get:
> > > ImportError: No module named vmdnumpy
> > >
> > > I think I've been able to change VMD console from tcl mode to python
> > mode.
> > > But I don't know if these errors could affect any script that I write.
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance.
> > > KP
> >
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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078