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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 16:01:33 CDT

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 13:17 -0700, BIN ZHANG wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I was having problem to compile VMD 1.8.6 on a linux machine. Using
> the following configure line :
>
> ./configure LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK SILENT TCL PTHREADS
>
> I was able to get a binary. However, the main menu is missing here. I
> saw from the list that this could be cause by missing FLTK library. ( http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/8023.html
> ). But I have no idea how to fix this. (And I did include FLTK for
> configure). Also, the officially distributed 1.8.6 binary would give
> the same problem.

that usually means, that you have a .vmdrc file in your home directory,
but it does not include "menu main on".

cheers,
   axel.

>
> Any suggestion is appreciated .
>
> Best,
> Bin
> 

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