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From: Albert (mailmd2011_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2012 - 14:17:08 CDT

Hi Axel:

   thank you very much for kind comments.

   I've also installed vmd-1.8.7 into my computer and extract related
python library from VMD website

<http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/pythonlib/>

  into /soft/vmd-1.8.7/lib_LINUXAMD64

then I add the following into my .cshrc and source it

setenv PYTHONENV /soft/vmd-1.8.7/lib_LINUXAMD64

after that I run vmd in my linux terminal and type

>vmd gopython

the problem is still there:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/soft/vmd-1.8.7/lib/vmd/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

thank you very much

On 04/02/2012 08:48 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Albert<mailmd2011_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> your system provided python installation is
> highly likely to be incompatible with VMD.
> you'd have to download the exact same python
> distribution that was used to compile VMD.
>
> otherwise, you'll have to compile VMD yourself
> for your machine. overall python support in VMD
> has been lacking a maintainer for a very long
> time and thus is experiencing some degree of
> bit rot over the last few years.
>
> i remember that the interface to tkinter itself
> has become problematic and that there were
> discussions on this list to fix it and some
> proposed fixes. not sure if that made it into
> the distribution, though.
>
> axel.
>
>> THX
>>
>
>