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From: Ocar Campos (ocarnorsk138_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 08 2010 - 06:48:56 CST

Prahit:

    I see you are a newcomer to linux, welcome!... those kind of errors are
because you are running the comands as a normal user, you should be
superuser or root to install some softwares that need to access some kind of
files so for installing vmd you must log as root, so in console you can
write:

> su
>

and then push enter, it will ask you the root password which it may be
different from your user password and then the prompt should say something
like:

root_at_linux-3qfw:
>

after this try with the commands I gave you and this should do the work...

O'car Campos C.
Bioinformatics Engineering Student.
University of Talca.
Chile.

2010/1/3 Prathit Chatterjee <pc20apr_at_yahoo.co.in>

> 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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