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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 11:03:23 CDT

Hi Patrick,
  Which Linux binary are you using? The "Mesa" or "OpenGL" version?
Its quite possible that you'll have to compile VMD from source if
Mandrake's C/C++ runtime libraries are incompatible with Redhat's.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:08:14AM +0200, Patrick Ladam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well, I already have had this problem with vmd 1.8 and it still
> shows up in 1.8.1b2. Some plugins (webpdbplugin.so and libpsfgen.so)
> do not load. I have this message at startup:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Unable to open dynamic library
> '/usr/local/VMD/vmd-1.8/plugins/LINUX/molfile/webpdbplugin.so'
> /usr/local/VMD/vmd-1.8/plugins/LINUX/molfile/webpdbplugin.so: undefined
> symbol: acos
> Unable to dlopen
> '/usr/local/VMD/vmd-1.8/plugins/LINUX/molfile/webpdbplugin.so':
>
> Unable to dlopen plugin file
> /usr/local/VMD/vmd-1.8/plugins/LINUX/molfile/webpdbplugin.so
>
> Automatic IMD package could not be loaded:
> couldn't load file
> "/usr/local/VMD/vmd-1.8/plugins/LINUX/tcl/psfgen1.3/libpsfgen
> .so": /usr/local/VMD/vmd-1.8/plugins/LINUX/tcl/psfgen1.3/libpsfgen.so:
> undefined symbol: sqrt
> Solvate package could not be loaded:
> couldn't load file
> "/usr/local/VMD/vmd-1.8/plugins/LINUX/tcl/psfgen1.3/libpsfgen
> .so": /usr/local/VMD/vmd-1.8/plugins/LINUX/tcl/psfgen1.3/libpsfgen.so:
> undefined symbol: sqrt
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> In vmd 1.8 I have recompiled these plugins from source and they
> loaded correctly then but for some reason I could not use them
> (commands related to these plugins like solvate or topology did
> not function). I guess this is the same problem here and I don't
> see what I can do to debug this any further.
>
> PS: I run vmd on Mandrake 9.0.
>
> Bye all
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