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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 29 2009 - 22:38:21 CDT

Hi,
  Yes, you can either remove the old version before installing
the new one, or you can install the new one to a different location
(by editing the top few lines of the 'configure' script before
 installing, or by setting environment variables VMDINSTALLBINDIR
 and VMDINSTALLLIBRARYDIR before running 'configure').

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:35:05AM +0800, Low Soo Mei wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could I please confirm: To cleanly erase the previously
> default-installed 1.8.6 Linux binary, I only need to remove
> /usr/local/lib/vmd , /usr/local/bin/vmd , and the actual directory of
> vmd 1.8.6? I noticed in the README that overwriting previous versions
> of VMD without a clean removal would give problems. Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Soo Mei
>
> John Stone wrote:
> >Dear VMD-L,
> > I've just posted VMD 1.8.7 beta 1 for download.
> >At the present time I've only posted binaries for
> >the mainstream Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, and Windows
> >platforms, but I will be adding builds for other platforms
> >over the next few days, and still more will become available
> >in the next beta release.
> >
> >Beta 1 is not quite feature-complete yet, a few items
> >we're debugging are still turned off in this version, but
> >it is largely representative of what the final release will
> >look like.
> >
> >If you have trouble downloading, installing, or running
> >the beta versions, please let me know.
> >
> >The VMD README file attached to this email contains a
> >partial list of the new features in VMD 1.8.7 beta 1.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > 

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