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From: jani sahil (genomejani_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 03 2010 - 05:15:26 CST

Are u firing the command from root user or user which has admin privilege
of the machine on which u want to install , if not make some changes to
configure file i.e change the path of installation in configure file.

hope this will help u

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Prathit Chatterjee <pc20apr_at_yahoo.co.in>wrote:

> Hello Ocar,
> I tried the commands you suggested me and I write to you the
> consequences which I face here.
>
> After I give the command "./configure" after going to the vmd-1.8.6
> directory using the command cd vmd-1.8.6, the following thing occurs which I
> am pasting below( I just want to know whether it is right or wrong):
>
> neelanjana_at_linux-3qfw:~/vmd-1.8.6> ./configure
> using configure.options: LINUXIA64 OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC IMD NETCDF TCL
> PTHREADS SILENT
>
> Then I gave the command "cd src" and then after entering into the src
> directory, I gave the required command as told by you, ie. "make install".
> Then the following error occred which I am mentioning you by pasting the
> exact reply from the linux window:
>
> neelanjana_at_linux-3qfw:~/vmd-1.8.6/src> make install
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/vmd': Permission denied
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/vmd': Permission denied
> make: *** [install] Error 1
>
> So, I dont know exactly what is the error occuring and thus, I need your
> help. I am pretty much thankful to you for your co-operative reply and shall
> be highly obliged if you grant me the favor again amidst your tight
> schedules.
> Thanking you,
>
> Prathit Chatterjee
> Junior Resrach Fellow(CSIR)
> under Dr. Neelanjana Sengupta
> Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecules
> Electronic Structure Theory Group
>
> Centre for Materials Characterization
> National Chemical Laboratory
> Pune,411008,India
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On *Sat, 2/1/10, Ocar Campos <ocarnorsk138_at_gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Ocar Campos <ocarnorsk138_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: vmd installation in linux
> To: "Prathit Chatterjee" <pc20apr_at_yahoo.co.in>, "Vmd l" <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> Date: Saturday, 2 January, 2010, 5:50 PM
>
>
> Hello:
>
> I usually do this, it works for archlinux, ubuntu and fedora, so it should
> be the same for opensuse, this is all working in a terminal:
>
> 1.- Download VMD.
>
> 2.- Uncompress the tar.gz file, and place yourself in the vmd folder, i.e.:
> cd vmd-1.8.6
>
> 3.- Execute the configuration file: ./configure
>
> 4.- Place yourself in the src folder: cd src
>
> cd src
>
> 5.- As root execute the make install: make install
>
> 6.- if you want to launch vmd from anywhere copy the vmd bin to
> /usr/local/bin then in console write vmd and it should launch anywhere.
>
> 7.- if ater copying the file doesn't work writting vmd anywhere I think you
> should add /usr/local/bin to the enviroment path.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Cheers.
> O'car Campos C.
> Bioinformatics Engineering Student.
> University of Talca.
> Chile.
>
>
> 2010/1/2 John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
>
>>
>> Hi,
>> Can you be more specific about what problem you're having after you
>> install? Any of the recent versions could work, but I need to know what
>> problem you're experiencing in order to help you solve it. What happens
>> if you run VMD in text mode via "vmd -dispdev text"?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John Stone
>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 09:38:09AM +0530, Prathit Chatterjee wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > can anyone help me installing vmd in linux. I have opensuse11.1
>> software
>> > version of linux. Also, I have windows xp and I know that it is very
>> > simple to install linux in windows but linux has other advantages. I
>> tried
>> > several versions from the vmd download link in my computer and tried
>> to
>> > install it by reading the suggestions given in the readme file. But,
>> it is
>> > not working in the linux. So I want to know the exact version of vmd
>> for
>> > installing in the linux(opensuse 11.1)
>> > Thanking you,
>> >
>> > Prathit Chatterjee
>> > PhD Student
>> > Junior Research Fellow(CSIR)
>> > Computational Chemistry
>> > Electronic Structure Theory Group
>> > Under Dr. Neelanjana Sengupta(scientist)
>> > Centre for Materials Characterization
>> > National Chemical Laboratory
>> > Pune,411008
>> >
>> >
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