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From: Lorenzo Isella (lorenzo.isella_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 17:50:04 CDT

Alright, mea culpa.
I RTFM; I thought the binaries were for fedora/red hat only.
I just had to follow the procedure.
Sorry for the hassle.

Lorenzo

Luis Gracia wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> I have been using debian unstable and vmd for some years now, without
> problems. I couldn't really understand the problem you are running into
> looking at your output. You output seems too complicated, too many steps
> which are not necessary to install vmd. As far as I remember, to install
> the binary version of vmd you just have to:
> - in the main dir change your options in configure.options. Mine are:
> LINUXAMD64 MESA FLTK TK TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY GCC
> - Modify configure to set your installation path. Mine are:
> $install_name = "vmd";
> $install_bin_dir="/usr/local/bin";
> $install_library_dir="/usr/local/lib/$install_name";
> - run ./configure
> - cd src
> - make install
>
> that's it. Of course you need to have the proper deb packages installed,
> like tcl, fltk, mesa, python,...
>
> If you need to compile from source I can also give you the script that I
> use.
>
> Good luck,
>
> luis
>
>