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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (axel.kohlmeyer_at_theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2005 - 06:37:21 CST

>>> "DW" == Daniel James White PhD <Dr.> writes:

DW> Hi axel,

DW> below is what you requested,

hi dan,

DW> I see it says
DW> ERROR) Could not read the vmd initialization file -
DW> ERROR) source {/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl}

DW> this file is there, and is readable! permissions are 644,
DW> so that is odd.......

don't worry about that, if you start the vmd_LINX binary
directly several environment variables are not set, so
it does not know, how to find its initialization files etc.

DW> Dan

DW> /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX
DW> bash-3.00$ ldd /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX
DW> libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x00ccc000)
DW> libGLU.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x00ae0000)
DW> libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x00a72000)
DW> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00758000)
DW> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x0066d000)
DW> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00667000)
DW> libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00b9f000)
DW> libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00642000)
DW> libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00516000)
DW> libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0x058c8000)
DW> libnvidia-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1
DW> (0x004ad000)
DW> libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00748000)
DW> libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00112000)
DW> libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0088b000)
DW> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x004fd000)

looking good.

DW> bash-3.00$ /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX -dispdev none
DW> Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.2 (December 4, 2003)
DW> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
DW> Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
DW> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
DW> Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
DW> Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
DW> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
DW> Info) Multithreading available, 1 CPU detected.
DW> ERROR) VMDDIR undefined, startup failure likely.
DW> ERROR) Could not read the vmd initialization file -
DW> ERROR) source {/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl}
DW> ERROR)
DW> ERROR) The VMDDIR environment variable is set by the startup
DW> ERROR) script and should point to the top of the VMD hierarchy.
DW> ERROR) VMD will continue with limited functionality.
DW> vmd > quit
DW> Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.2 (December 4, 2003)
DW> Info) Exiting normally.

looking good, too.
so in principle you can start the executable.

two more possible sources of error:

- you don't have '/bin/csh' or 'xterm' installed.

- the OpenGL window does not work. please try:
./vmd_LINUX -dispdev win

axel.
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