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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2010 - 22:06:55 CDT

Hi,
  Beyond what Axel already said, you can compile from source and
build a text-only version of VMD with "make linux.text" or
"make linux.amd64.text" from the top level vmd directory, which
will run the configure script with the right flags for a text only build.
You can subsequently tweak the configure.options file or run the configure
script with your own set of flags if you like.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:31:18AM +0100, Philip Peartree wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is it possible to compile vmd without graphics, but still retain full tcl
> scripting? I have tried running vmd in text display mode, but it won't
> load on the compute nodes of our cluster, because it still requests
> graphics libraries, which aren't there (for obvious reasons). I'm aware
> that vmd is mainly for visualising data, but I can't load my full
> trajectory in for analysis, as I have limited RAM.
>
> Philip Peartree
> University of Manchester 

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