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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2012 - 00:21:25 CST

Hi,
  If you're running on a Windows Vista machine, you'll get better
results running the Windows version of VMD natively rather than running
one of the Linux versions of VMD within a virtual machine or emulator.
I suspect that the OpenGL performance of the native Windows version of VMD
will be much higher than the emulated/virtual machine running the Linux
version of VMD. That said, if you're having trouble with the 'rlwrap'
part of the VMD startup script, you should be able to fix that by commenting
out the rlwrap portions of the 'vmd' startup script on your installation.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 07:41:55PM +0000, Matthew Barlow wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to using the VMD software, but need to install it onto Linux (I'm
> running Ubuntu 12.04 using Wubi in a Windows Vista x86 standard operating
> system). I have successfully installed VMD onto this Windows OS, but
> unfortunately cannot get the Linux OS to install vmd successfully (In
> order to save me restarting my machine every time I want to use VMD).
>
> So far, I have unzipped and untarred the .gz folder, and performed the
> ./configure. I then navigated into the src directory, and make install
> worked. All of this followed the README file, so I think I'm correct in
> this.
>
> Previously, I then had an error stating that the libGL.so.1 shared library
> couldn't be found, but I've managed to fix that (I think).
>
> However, now when I attempt to run "vmd" I get the error message:
> rlwrap: No match.
> I've tried to install rlwrap, and I think I've installed that correctly,
> but I constantly get the same error, so obviously I've done something
> wrong.
>
> Is there anyone who can help me get it sorted? 

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