Installation parameters

The following parameters control where and how VMD is installed after compilation. They do not have any effect on how VMD is compiled. It is easiest to change these at the same time other parameters are being changed, so the configure script need only be run once. Edit the file configure.parameters in the main working directory to change these settings.

• INSTALLBINDIR (default=/usr/local/bin)
  The directory where scripts and utility programs are installed. This should be a directory which is in the path of all users interested in running VMD.

• INSTALLLIBDIR (default=/usr/local/lib/vmd)
  A directory in which VMD data files and architecture-specific executables are placed. This directory should not be in the path of users running VMD.

• INSTALLNAME (default=vmd)
  VMD uses a shell script to run the proper VMD executable for the given version of Unix (the script also sets some environment variables and starts an xterm running to act as the VMD console). INSTALLNAME is the name given to this shell script, and will be the command users type to run VMD. When the program is installed, the file bin/vmd is then copied to the file INSTALLBINDIR/INSTALLNAME.