From: radak004_at_umn.edu
Date: Tue Mar 02 2010 - 13:07:51 CST

Hello VMD community,

Long-time user, first time poster.

I am currently trying to run the python interpreter within vmd 1.8.7 (LINUX
32bit with openGL) and Fedora 10 but get the following errors:

from the command line (i.e > vmd -python)
ERROR) Sorry, this version of VMD was compiled with Python support disabled
ERROR) Skipping startup script because Python could not be started.

from the vmd terminal (i.e. vmd > gopython)
invalid command name "gopython"

I can see from the long line of posts on this subject that this means my
version of vmd was not compiled with Python support. What is the easiest
way to remedy this?

Are there now easily downloadable binaries compiled with python support?
This was apparently on someone's todo list a while back.

OR

Is there a low hassle way for me to compile vmd from source such that
python works correctly? From other discussions I'm guessing the short
answer to this is "no."

OR

I think my purposes could be equally met by importing vmd into python as a
module. Is this more easily accomplished than the options above? I haven't
been able to find detailed directions as to how to set this up, not that I
looked too hard.

Thanks in advance for your time,
Brian

-- 
Brian Radak
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Physics
Teaching Assistant, CHEM 1021/1022/8551
Graduate Student, York Research Group
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