From: Tru Huynh (tru_at_pasteur.fr)
Date: Mon Nov 23 2009 - 10:30:17 CST

Hello,

Would it be possible to download the python version fom vmd-1.8.7 amd64?
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/pythonlib provides the 1.8.3..6 versions
not the latest one ;)

[tru_at_d5400xs ~]$ vmd -dispdev text -python
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 7707MB (96%)
Info) Detected 2 available CUDA accelerators:
Info) [0] GeForce GTX 280 30 SM_1.3 @ 1.30 GHz, 1023MB RAM, OIO, ZCP
Info) [1] Quadro FX 1700 4 SM_1.1 @ 0.92 GHz, 511MB RAM, KTO, OIO
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
Info) Starting Python...
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: vmdnumpy module not available.
Info) Text interpreter now Python
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/c5/shared/vmd/vmd-1.8.7/scripts/python/Tkinter.py", line 59, in <module
>
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>>>
Info) Text interpreter now Tcl
vmd > vmdinfo options
LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC CUDA IMD LIBSBALL XINPUT LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT
vmd > quit
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
Info) Exiting normally.
Info) Done with Python.

vmd-1.8.6 + python works fine (once PYTHONHOME defined properly):
[tru_at_d5400xs ~]$ vmd-1.8.6 -dispdev text -python
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.6 (April 6, 2007)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 7706MB (96%)
Info) Starting Python...
Info) Text interpreter now Python
>>>
Info) Text interpreter now Tcl
vmd > vmdinfo options
LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC IMD SPACEBALL LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT
vmd > quit
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.6 (April 6, 2007)
Info) Exiting normally.
Info) Done with Python.
[tru_at_d5400xs ~]$

Thanks

Tru

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