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From: Frank Barry (frank.james.barry_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 01 2011 - 10:50:26 CDT

I am having problems running vmd 1.9 on a newly installed Ubuntu box.

$ vmd
rlwrap: No match.

I found this related posts on the list:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/18099.html

As in the post, if I comment out the "rlwrap block" in the start-up script
I can get vmd to open but with quite poor performance (maybe unrelated).
I am quite new to Linux (especially Ubuntu). So any tips on a better way
to proceed would be helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Frank

## using vmd-1.9.bin.LINUXAMD64.opengl.tar.gz

$ which csh rlwrap
/bin/csh
/usr/bin/rlwrap

$ ./configure
using configure.options: LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC CUDA IMD LIBSBALL
XINERAMA XINPUT LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT

$ cd src/

$ sudo make install
Make sure /usr/local/bin/vmd is in your path.
VMD installation complete. Enjoy!

$ vmd
rlwrap: No match.

$ head /usr/local/bin/vmd
#!/bin/csh
set defaultvmddir="/usr/local/lib/vmd"

$ uname -a
Linux perutz 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric