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From: Robert Brunner (rbrunner_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2008 - 10:19:45 CDT

To install a plugin in VMD, you need to do 2 things. You need to make
the plugin itself accessible to VMD, and you need to tell VMD to add
it to the Extensions menu. I think you only did the first, but didn't
add it to the menu. Here are 2 ways you should be able to do both
things:

1. Download and install the entire VMD plugin tree update as described
at
<http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/186update1/>
Then you may want to install the latest version of the Inorganic
Builder plugin (replacing the version in the 1.8.6 plugin update,
available at:
<http://biocore-s.ks.uiuc.edu/biocore/biofs/VMD (Public)/inorganicbuilder-20080820.tar
>

or

2. Use the inorganicbuilder plugin directory you already downloaded.
Edit your $HOME/.vmdrc file, and add lines something like to following:

------------
set auto_path [ linsert $auto_path 0 \
   "/Users/rkb/Programming/vmd/vmd/plugins/inorganicbuilder" ];
if { [info exists tk_version] } {
   package require inorganicbuilder;
   vmd_install_extension inorganicbuilder inorganicBuilder_tk \
     "Modeling/Inorganic Builder";
}
-------------

Change the directory paths to point to your copy of the plugin, of
course.

Good luck,
Robert

On Sep 12, 2008, at 3:19 AM, Nd S wrote:

> Hi
> I am using VMD on the windows system. I have downloaded the
> inorganic builder plugin and saved it to ../plugins/noarch/tcl
> folder. I am not sure how I can use this plugin. It doesnt appear in
> the Extensions->Modeling menu in the VMD.
>
> Thanks
> Navdeep