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From: Luis Guillermo Cota Preciado (lgcota_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 10:19:01 CDT

Hi John,

There seems to be no *.vmdinit* file anywhere. The *.vmdrc* file that sits
in */usr/local/lib/vmd* is not empty, and there is no such file in my $HOME.
Here's the* ls -al* dump of */usr/local/lib/vmd:*

drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 480 2010-06-04 01:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 272 2010-06-04 01:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2020 2010-06-04 01:24 Announcement
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 2010-06-04 01:24 doc
-rwxr-xr-- 1 lgc lgc 246044 2009-05-11 12:54 libcudart.so.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7753 2010-06-04 01:24 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-- 5 lgc lgc 120 2009-08-01 01:44 plugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14964 2010-06-04 01:24 README
drwxr-xr-- 8 lgc lgc 216 2010-06-04 01:24 scripts
drwxr-xr-- 3 lgc lgc 184 2009-08-01 01:41 shaders
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1167079 2010-06-04 01:24 stride_LINUX
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 352948 2010-06-04 01:24 surf_LINUX
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 176272 2010-06-04 01:24 tachyon_LINUX
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3166 2010-06-04 01:24 vmd_completion.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5921104 2010-06-04 01:24 vmd_LINUX
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1813 2010-06-04 01:24 .vmdrc
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1784 2010-06-04 01:24 .vmdsensors

Thank you for your help.

2010/6/4 John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>

>
> Hi,
> Did you verify that the .vmdinit file in the installation
> directory is readable by a normal user? You might also check
> that you don't have an empty .vmdrc sitting around in your
> home directory. If neither of those is the problem, send me
> the 'ls -al' output on your installation directory and I'll have
> a quick look.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:32:23AM -0500, Luis Guillermo Cota Preciado
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I followed the instructions within the README file, to no avail,
> trying to
> > do a default installation. I had to -but of course!- use sudo in order
> to
> > proceed without errors. However, I ended up with no permissions for
> the
> > normal user, which I had to tweak by hand in order to get VMD running.
> > However, somehow the otherwise usual "main" window (whatever its name
> is),
> > the one for loading and displaying and all that, is absent. Just the
> > terminal and the visualization area are present.
> > What gives? Thanks.
>
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