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From: A. Gomez-Sicilia (agomezsicilia_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2013 - 08:11:03 CDT

Hi Axel,

Thanks for the answer. Apparently if I download the source code I do not
get the plugins, which are needed. Where do I dowload these?

Does your last sentence, "vmd 1.8.7 was the last version with support for
python compiled in" mean that I cannot get python even from the source code?

Thanks

Àngel

On 10 October 2013 15:05, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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