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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 10:03:24 CST

Paul,
  Thus far since we released VMD 1.8.2, all of the Mac problems I've
heard of so far have been traced to bugs in .csrhc, file permissions
(i.e. VMD installed by one user ends up not being runnable by another user),
and conflicting shared library/Framework paths for OpenGL. I have yet to
find a Mac running OS X >= 10.2 that VMD won't run on once such problems are
fixed.

  John

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:07:16PM +0900, Paul Fons wrote:
> Apparently there must be something unique about your system as on my
> (two) machines both running 10.3.3., VMD 1.8.2 works fine. This is
> with just a simple "drag the application to the /Applications folder"
> type install.
>
>
> On Mar 22, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Peter Engelhardt wrote:
>
>
> > Dear VMD-L,
> >
> > Downloaded the MacOS X version of VMD 1.82 - no problem.
> >
> > Installed - just dragged all to Applications
> >
> > However, VMD do not start (tested restarting etc), what's wrong
> >
> > I use MacOSX Panther !0.3.3
> >
> > Earlier versions like e.g. 1.7 have been working no problem
> > (unfortunately I seem to have deleted them)
> >
> > I tested also the now available VMD 1.7 (something MESA with x11 to
> > be used), But I find there are a lot of installation instruction
> > now that was not there before (as I remember) and I have not yet
> > got it either to work (using Mac x11) just because of all the
> > installations fuss you must go through as I see it?
> >
> > I think there were no problems with earlier VMD like 1.7 and all
> > worked just fine, but the MacOSX I used was 10.0, 10.1 or
> > something?
> >
> > I should be very happy to get the latest VMD 1.8.2 to work on
> > MacOS10.3.3 without complicated installations.
> >
> > Please, let me now what's is the problem.
> >
> > Cheers and thanks in advance
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
>
> Dr. Paul Fons
> Senior Researcher
> National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science & Technology
> METI
> Optoelectronics Division
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>
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>
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