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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 11:24:03 CST

Hi,
  I can't tell from your email what installation steps
were taken prior to your attempt to run VMD. Can you be more specific
about exactly what steps you took and what version you downloaded etc?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 08:17:44AM -0500, PaulW wrote:
> This may be a resend as sending from Gmail was a problem on the web.
>
> I am having similar problems to a thread posted about the installation
> of 1.7 version. I get the same error messages from Terminal as that
> poster. John Stone had answered with the option to install the binaries
> of the program as a solution because of the dependencies. Where do I
> find the binaries. It seems the only thing I could find was the 64 bit
> version that I downloaded before. I am using Ubuntu 11.04.
>
> I get the following when I try to run the program in the Lib program
> folder from Terminal.
>
> paulw_at_ubuntu:~/usr/local/bin$ vmd
> No command 'vmd' found, did you mean:
> Command 'wmd' from package 'wml' (universe)
> Command 'amd' from package 'am-utils' (universe)
> Command 'mmd' from package 'mtools' (main)
> Command 'vm' from package 'mgetty-voice' (universe)
> Command 'vgd' from package 'viewglob' (universe)
> Command 'pvmd' from package 'pvm' (universe)
> vmd: command not found
> paulw_at_ubuntu:~/usr/local/bin$
>
> I had read that in Linux, a file called VMDrc is created. I looked for
> that, found it and tried again with similar results.
>
> paulw_at_ubuntu:~/usr/local/lib/vmd$ vmdrc
> vmdrc: command not found
> paulw_at_ubuntu:~/usr/local/lib/vmd$
>
> I attempted a reinstall. All the folders were created but when I went to
> the Bin folder which contained a very small VMD file and opened it up in
> Terminal I got the folllowing message. It seems I have the similar
> dependencies problem as the other poster.
>
> paulw_at_ubuntu:~/usr/local/bin$ vmd
> No command 'vmd' found, did you mean:
> Command 'wmd' from package 'wml' (universe)
> Command 'amd' from package 'am-utils' (universe)
> Command 'mmd' from package 'mtools' (main)
> Command 'vm' from package 'mgetty-voice' (universe)
> Command 'vgd' from package 'viewglob' (universe)
> Command 'pvmd' from package 'pvm' (universe)
> vmd: command not found
> paulw_at_ubuntu:~/usr/local/bin$
>
> I believe this program is a binary as per the Readme file but don't know
> how to proceed further. Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
>
>
> 

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