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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2013 - 08:05:12 CDT

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:09 PM, A. Gomez-Sicilia
<agomezsicilia_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear VMD users,
>
> I have been using vmd for 5 years now and need to do an extensive analysis
> for which I have python scripts written. Due to the differences in
> functionality, transcripting to TCL is difficult. Apparently, however, vmd
> is able to interpret python commands.

you need to compile VMD from source to have python support.

> I tried to install vmd 1.9.1 on my Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit adding the options
> "PYTHON NUMPY" to the configure.options file, and after configure and make
> install no errors arose. However, the command "vmd -python" prints an error:

changing the configuration options with a binary distribution has no effect.

>> ERROR) Sorry, this version of VMD was compiled with Python support
>> disabled
>> ERROR) Skipping startup script because Python could not be started.
>
> Also, starting vmd normally then typing in "gopython" returns:
>>
>> invalid command name "gopython"
>
> Other than being unable to read python, vmd behaves normally for whatever of
> the cases above.
>
> Is it possible that python support is only available under a 64-bit
> platform, or that I am missing some crucial step in the installation? Any
> help will be greately appreciated.

no. vmd 1.8.7 was the last version with support for python compiled in.

axel.

>
> Yours,
>
> Àngel 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.