From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 02 2009 - 09:55:51 CDT

Hi,
  Have you run the APBS executable at least once by hand to verify
that you have it installed correctly? The error message you're getting
indicates that APBS didn't run correctly, usually due to missing shared
libraries, incompatible host architecture, or similar issues. You should
be able to run APBS by hand and get at least basic version info output:
% apbs --version
APBS 0.5.0

If that doesn't work, then there's no way the VMD APBS plugin can work..
Let us know if you still need help with this.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:51:01AM -0400, Navendu bhatnagar wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to run apbs electrostatics calculations using the provided
> plugin in VMD.
> I created the required pqr file using the pdb2pqr converter. Then loaded it
> into VMD and opened the APBS tool.
>
> I have installed APBS locally on my machine. I have VMD 1.8.6 version
>
> I specified the path of the .pqr input file and apbs executable in the edit
> section of apbs tool.
>
> When I run APBS, I get the following error,
> *APBSRun : output files missing or unreadable.*
>
> I see that earlier this error was a reason of spaces in the file/folder
> path name.
> The path in my case is :* /home2/navendu/lipidmembrane/sytcal/apbs/trial*
>
> Am I missing something here ? Why does it say that output files are missing
> ?
> Any help / suggestions on this will be appreciated.
>
>
> --
> NAVENDU BHATNAGAR

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