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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 24 2016 - 09:37:40 CST

Hi,
  What error do you get after removing the 'rlwrap' block from the startup
script? What do you get when you run this command:
  uname -a

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 01:42:09PM +0100, Madaras Erzsébet wrote:
> Dear John,
> I tried your suggestions, but it still won't work. I do have rlwrap on my
> system, I'm quite sure. Do you perhaps have any other suggestions? Or
> should I try switching op systems?
> Many thanks,
> Liz
>
> 2016-11-23 23:16 GMT+01:00 John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>:
>
> > Hi,
> > If your system lacks rlwrap, the easiest way of getting past this is
> > to disable that part of the startup script. The 'rlwrap' program is used
> > to give the standard VMD text interface an arrow-editable
> > command history and other features that people often use in modern
> > command shells, or with the TkCon plugin in VMD itself. That being said,
> > it is optional and in cases where 'rlwrap' isn't working, you can simply
> > disable it in the VMD startup script that is used to launch VMD, by
> > commenting out the associated lines of code.
> >
> > Original VMD csh startup script:
> > --------------------------------
> > # detect if we have rlwrap available to have commandline editing
> > set vmdprefixcmd=""
> > if (("${ARCH}" == "LINUX") || ("${ARCH}" == "LINUXAMD64")) then
> > set rlwrap=`which rlwrap`
> > if ( -x "$rlwrap" ) then
> > if ( -f ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat ) then
> > set vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ -f
> > ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat "
> > else
> > set vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ "
> > endif
> > endif
> > endif
> >
> > Modifications that disable the use of 'rlwrap' (csh startup script):
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > # detect if we have rlwrap available to have commandline editing
> > set vmdprefixcmd=""
> > #if (("${ARCH}" == "LINUX") || ("${ARCH}" == "LINUXAMD64")) then
> > # set rlwrap=`which rlwrap`
> > # if ( -x "$rlwrap" ) then
> > # if ( -f ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat ) then
> > # set vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ -f
> > ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat "
> > # else
> > # set vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ "
> > # endif
> > # endif
> > #endif
> >
> > Or you can just delete those lines, so that all you have left is this:
> > # detect if we have rlwrap available to have commandline editing
> > set vmdprefixcmd=""
> >
> >
> > If you're using the bourne shell version of the VMD startup script
> > (it is installed when /bin/csh or /bin/tcsh don't exist) then you would
> > make the same general modifications, changing the code from the original:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > # detect if we have rlwrap available to have commandline editing
> > case $MACHARCH in
> > *Linux*)
> > if hash rlwrap 2>/dev/null
> > then
> > if [ -f "${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat" ]
> > then
> > vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ -f
> > ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat "
> > else
> > vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ "
> > fi
> > else
> > vmdprefixcmd=""
> > fi
> > ;;
> >
> > *)
> > vmdprefixcmd=""
> > ;;
> > esac
> >
> > And either comment out all of those lines or delete them, and
> > then add this line after the end of that block of code:
> > # force empty prefixcmd if rlwrap isn't working!
> > vmdprefixcmd=""
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 11:00:00PM +0100, Madaras Erzsébet wrote:
> > > Hi! I'm experiencing a problem with VMD on Linux Cinnamon Mint (Sarah).
> > > When I try to run VMD, I get an error message saying "rlwrap: no match" 

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