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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 19:19:28 CST

Cheri,
  Though I find it hard to imagine, it appears that your Linux
box is _missing_ /bin/csh?????? Can you double check and tell me
if you have a /bin/csh executable on your system? That's highly
unusual to say the least. What version of Linux are you running?

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 03:29:00PM -0600, Cheri M Turman wrote:
> Hi John and others,
> I was having error messages when starting up vmd. I sent this question
> to everyone yesterday. John Stone suggested that I was not installing
> it properly since I was not seeing a special startup script called 'vmd'
> and I was instead using vmd_LINUX. He was correct (thanks John!). I
> am now getting the vmd script; however, I am not able to execute it. I
> am getting the /bin/csh : bad interpreter error. Of course I thought it
> was just a permission problem but it turns out that it is not. Any
> ideas of how I can fix this? Below is the console where I installed
> vmd. Is there maybe another log file stored somewhere during
> installation which might show where an error has occured?
>
>
>
> linuxbox:~$ source ~/.bashrc
> linuxbox:~$ ./configure
> bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
> linuxbox:~$ cd Desktop/vmd-1.8.2
> linuxbox:~/Desktop/vmd-1.8.2$ ./configure
> using configure.options: LINUX OPENGL TK TCL
> linuxbox:~/Desktop/vmd-1.8.2$ cd src
> linuxbox:~/Desktop/vmd-1.8.2/src$ make install
> if [ ! -d /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd ]; then \
> mkdir -p /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd ; \
> fi ; \
> if [ ! -d /home/turmancm/Desktop/RUNVMD ]; then \
> mkdir -p /home/turmancm/Desktop/RUNVMD ; \
> fi ; \
> if [ ! -d /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd/doc ]; then \
> mkdir -p /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd/doc; \
> fi
> cp ../Announcement /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd
> cp ../README /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd
> cp ../LICENSE /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd
> cp ../doc/ug.pdf /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd/doc
> cp ../LINUX/vmd_LINUX /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd
> cp ../lib/stride/stride_LINUX ../lib/surf/surf_LINUX
> ../lib/tachyon/tachyon_LINUX /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd
> cd ..; tar -cf - scripts | \
> (cd /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd ; tar -xf -)
> cd ../lib; tar -cf - scripts | \
> (cd /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd ; tar -xf -)
> cd ..; tar -cf - python | \
> (cd /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd/scripts ; tar -xf -)
> cd ..; tar -cf - plugins | \
> (cd /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd ; tar -xf -)
> cp ../data/.vmdrc ../data/.vmdsensors /home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd
> cd ../bin ; \
> if [ -f run_vmd_tmp ]; then rm -f run_vmd_tmp; fi ; \
> echo '#!/bin/csh' >> run_vmd_tmp ; \
> echo 'set defaultvmddir=/home/turmancm/Desktop/vmd' >> run_vmd_tmp ; \
> echo 'set vmdbasename=vmd' >> run_vmd_tmp ; \
> cat vmd >> run_vmd_tmp ; \
> chmod +x run_vmd_tmp ; \
> cp run_vmd_tmp /home/turmancm/Desktop/RUNVMD/vmd ; \
> rm -f run_vmd_tmp
> echo Make sure /home/turmancm/Desktop/RUNVMD/vmd is in your path.
> Make sure /home/turmancm/Desktop/RUNVMD/vmd is in your path.
> echo "VMD installation complete. Enjoy!"
> VMD installation complete. Enjoy!
> linuxbox:~/Desktop/vmd-1.8.2/src$ cd ../../RUNVMD/
> linuxbox:~/Desktop/RUNVMD$ ./vmd
> bash: ./vmd: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> linuxbox:~/Desktop/RUNVMD$
>
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Cheri
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Cheri M. Turman
> Graduate Student
> University of Texas-Houston Medical School
> 6431 Fannin
> Houston, TX 77030 USA
>
> e-mail: cheri.m.turman_at_uth.tmc.edu
> Ph.: 713-500-6126
> Fax: 713-500-0652

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