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From: huaer_at_myway.com
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 11:06:26 CDT

Hi, John, thank you so much for your detail instructions. I just figured it out, I downloaded "LINUX OpenGL (Linux (Redhat 9 or later) with Mesa or hardware OpenGL)" instead of "
Source Code", and this works perfectly.:)

Huaer

 --- On Wed 04/06, John Stone < johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu > wrote:
From: John Stone [mailto: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
To: huaer_at_myway.com
     Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:59:38 -0500
Subject: Re: vmd-l: Install VMD on Mandrake Linux

<br>Huaer,<br> Can you tell us what specific problem your having?<br>The short list of items to check are:<br> 1) you read the README file that describes the installation process on Unix<br> 2) you've set the directories appropriately in the ./configure script<br> 3) you've run:<br> ./configure; cd src; make install;<br> 4) you've tried to run VMD with /usr/local/bin/vmd or the equivalent based<br> on the directories you specified in the ./configure script.<br> 5) you have a working OpenGL driver installed on your machine, according<br> to 'glxinfo' at a minimum. (i.e. no warnings of missing GLX or something)<br> 6) if VMD fails to start, you've tried doing this to see if it runs in <br> text-only mode (eliminating your graphics system from the equation to <br> narrow down the source of your problem):<br> vmd -dispdev text<br><br>Let us know which part you're having trouble with.<br><br> John Stone<br> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu<br> <br><br>On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:37:34AM -0400, huaer_at_myway.
com wrote:<br>> <br>> Hi, all:<br>> <br>> I met some problems in setting up VMD in Mandrake 10.0 Linux system.<br>> Has anyone here ever installed VMD in Mandrake Linux? And could you please tell me which options I shall set in the file "configure.options". Many thanks..<br>> <br>> Huaer.<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.<br>> Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com><br>-- <br>NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics<br>Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology<br>University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801<br>Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349 <br> WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078<br>

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