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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 22 2010 - 10:32:35 CDT

Hi,
  You didn't indicate whether you were superuser when you tried the
install or not? Also, where did you unpack the VMD distribution tar
file prior to the install? It would seem to me that you've got permissions
problems in either the working directory you're in, or as a result of
not being superuser, or the like. (and some machines have root quashing
for certain directories, so it could be the other way around too)

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 04:37:09PM +0100, adil mughal wrote:
> Dear VMD community,
>
> I am running Scientific Linux SL release 5.4 (Boron). I am trying to
> install VMD but I am having some problems. I have run the "./configure"
> command, and get:
>
> using configure.options: LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC CUDA IMD LIBSBALL
> XINPUT LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT
>
> then I run "make install" and I get the following:
>
> /bin/sh: line 9: run_vmd_tmp: Permission denied
> /bin/sh: line 10: run_vmd_tmp: Permission denied
> /bin/sh: line 11: run_vmd_tmp: Permission denied
> /bin/sh: line 12: run_vmd_tmp: Permission denied
> chmod: cannot access `run_vmd_tmp': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `run_vmd_tmp': No such file or directory
> Make sure /usr/local/bin/vmd is in your path.
> VMD installation complete. Enjoy!
>
> In fact there is no file vmd under /usr/local/bin/. Any idea what is going
> on??
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Adil Mughal 

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