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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_vitae.cmm.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 21 2006 - 01:10:52 CST

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Fan,Huajun wrote:

FH> Hi, Please help me with this installation process. I download the 1.8.4b
FH> version of VMD and gunzip and untar it. once I get into the untar-ed
FH> directory and type the following command. It does nothing. here is the
FH> output:
FH>
FH> [root_at_localhost]# ./configure
FH> using configure.options: LINUX OPENGL ACTC FLTK TK IMD SPACEBALL
FH> LIBTACHYON VRPN TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT
FH> [root_at_localhost]# cd src/
FH> [root_at_localhost]# make

please re-check the installation instructions. you have to do
a 'make install'. plain make will attempt to recompile, which
will not work due to lack of sources in the binary packages.

regards,
     axel.

FH> make: *** No rule to make target `y.tab.h', needed by `vmd_LINUX'.
FH> Stop.
FH> [root_at_localhost]# ../configure
FH> cat: configure.options: No such file or directory
FH> using configure.options:
FH> Architecture not supported (IRIX6 IRIX6_64 FREEBSD HPUX11 AIX4 LINUX
FH> LINUXALPHA LINUXAMD64 LINUXPPC MACOSX TRU64 SOLARIS2 SOLARIS2_64
FH> SOLARISX86 WIN32)
FH>
FH> 

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