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From: Peter Freddolino (petefred_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2008 - 23:31:25 CDT

Just as a separate datapoint, I have vmd running happily with tcsh
6.15.00, so it probably isn't a generic tcsh issue (although it may be
something distribution-specific about your setup). Speaking of which,
what distro are you using? So far we only have enough information to
know it's probably something in the debian superfamily.
Best,
Peter

John Stone wrote:
> Peter,
> I'm not sure what would emit the error you're seeing, but I would
> first check to see if you have a .cshrc file in your home directory.
> If so, I would try renaming it to .cshrc.bak and then try starting
> VMD. If you still get the error message, then I'd guess this is some
> sort of issue with tcsh. One thing to try here would be to quickly
> run tcsh interactively yourself, and see if you get any warnings etc.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:07:55PM +1000, Peter Hains wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> thanks for the quick reply. I appreciate the help and again I know it's
>> art of a learning curve. I've installed tcsh (ver 6.15.00) as I couldn't
>> install a version of csh. (I did try by running sudo apt-get install
>> csh, but I was essentially told the "Package csh has no installation
>> candidate").
>>
>> So, I've installed tcsh. Just to be paranoid, I re-installed VMD. I now
>> get the following error:
>>
>> META_CLASS: Undefined variable
>>
>> Some searching suggested it may be the version I had installed (I
>> originally had 6.14 installed). I've got the same issue with ver
>> 6.15.00. To my inexperienced eye, this appears to be related to tcsh
>> rather than VMD. So if this is off topic for the VMD list, could you
>> point me to where I may be able to find assistance?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Peter
>>
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