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From: Paul Anderson (pasystems01_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 12:51:34 CST

Hi John,

Thank you for your response. I had unpacked the tar file to my home folder
and went into it. When in the folder I was able to open up terminal in that
directory. I put in the command ./configure and it went through the steps
to create the folders etc. Then I did a "cd" command to go to the src
folder and typed in make install. It indicated it was going to a "bourne"
shell (?) and ended the operation. I went to both the bin and lib folders
to try and start the program through terminal and got the error messages as
described in my previous email. I have downloaded the latest version for
linux of VMD.

Anything you do to help would be appreciated. Would a screenshot or two be
of assistance?

Best,

Paul Anderson

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:24 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> 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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