From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2015 - 21:55:59 CST

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Majid Shahbabaei
<m.shahbabaei_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Norman, Axel and Users,
>
> Thank you very much for your valuable time.
>
> Axel,
>
> I think my operating system is LINUX 64. It showed me when using
> $ uname
> Linux
> $ uname -a
> Linux majid-H67MU3 3.8.0-37-generic #53~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 19
> 21:37:54 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I also tried both two LINUX packages
>
> vmd-1.9.2.bin.LINUX.opengl.tar.gz
> vmd-1.9.2.bin.LINUXAMD64.opengl.tar.gz
>
> But when I ran them I faced same error
>
> /usr/local/bin/vmd: 480: exec: /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX: not found

look at your first e-mail in this thread. you wrote that you ran
"./configure LINUX". that is not what the installation instructions
say.

there are a *ton* of people that have successfully installed VMD over
the years, including on ubuntu (and the installation instructions have
not changed much nor the launch scripts or makefiles). so it very
likely is not a VMD issue, but some step where you didn't follow the
instructions properly.

axel.

>
>
> Norman,
>
> The outputs when implementing the following command
>
> majid_at_majid-H67MU3:/usr/local/lib/vmd$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/vmd/
> total 48
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2020 Feb 7 11:46 Announcement
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 7 11:35 doc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7754 Feb 7 11:46 LICENSE
> drwxr-xr-x 6 majid majid 4096 Dec 30 12:25 plugins
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15893 Feb 7 11:46 README
> drwxr-xr-x 8 majid majid 4096 Dec 30 12:25 scripts
> drwxr-xr-x 3 majid majid 4096 Dec 30 12:22 shaders
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3166 Feb 7 11:46 vmd_completion.dat
>
>
> Any comment would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> MajiD
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Norman Geist
> <norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de> wrote:
>>
>> Well what you find in /usr/bin/vmd is just a script, not a binary. This
>> script will actually put together the correct settings to start the real VMD
>> binary which is “vmd_LINUX*”, which couldn’t be located as your error
>> message show. Check what is the name of the binary in /usr/local/lib/vmd and
>> make sure normal users have permission to enter the directory and to execute
>> that binary. Please show us the output of:
>>
>>
>>
>> ls -l /usr/local/lib/vmd
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Norman Geist.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf
>> Of Majid Shahbabaei
>> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 12:29 PM
>> To: Norman Geist; vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>
>>
>> Subject: Re: vmd-l: Problem by removing vmd 1.9.1 and installing 1.9.2.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Norman,
>>
>> Thank you for the reply. I think it is located as "/usr/locl/lib/vmd" not
>> "/usr/locl/lib/vmd-1.9.2".
>>
>> Actually, I did not change the default directory as
>> "defaultvmddir="/usr/local/lib/vmd" .
>>
>> I know my question is trivial but could you please explain a little bit in
>> detail what do you mean about changing the startup script ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> MajiD
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Norman Geist
>> <norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de> wrote:
>>
>> So you seem to have solved the rlwrap issue. But there’s something wrong
>> with the path to the VMD binary. Are you sure it is located as
>> “/usr/local/lib/vmd” and not maybe “/usr/local/lib/vmd-1.9.2”? Check that
>> and change the startup script, there’s a variable at the top of the script
>> to point to the VMD location.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>>
>>
>>
>> Norman Geist.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf
>> Of Majid Shahbabaei
>> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 8:19 AM
>> To: Josh Vermaas; vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>> Subject: Re: vmd-l: Problem by removing vmd 1.9.1 and installing 1.9.2.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Josh and users,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help. I did follow as you explained (I had to
>> place the "fi ; \\" expression before "chmod +x run_vmd_tmp ; \\"). But the
>> following error happened
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/vmd: 480: exec: /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX: not found
>>
>> I also tried the Axel's comments at
>> (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/16988.html) but
>> nothing happens. The same error
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/vmd: 480: exec: /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX: not found
>>
>> Any comment would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> MajiD
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Josh Vermaas <vermaas2_at_illinois.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Majid,
>>
>> Change the configuration file. Ubuntu's (and probably all debian
>> derivatives) have a version of rlwrap that don't play nice with csh=
>>
>>
>
>

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College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.