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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 09:50:25 CST

Peter,
  The last couple of people that had trouble running VMD on MacOS X
cured their problems by fixing bugs in their .cshrc files. In the last
few cases, these problems were caused by incorrectly writing "source .alias"
in their .cshrc files rather than the correct form "source ~/.alias".
Simple problems like this can interfere with the correct operations of
scripts such as the VMD startup script, and so if in doubt, the first thing
one should do is double-check your .cshrc for errors like these.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:22:03AM +0200, Peter Engelhardt wrote:
> Dear VMD-L,
>
> Downloaded the MacOS X version of VMD 1.82 - no problem.
>
> Installed - just dragged all to Applications
>
> However, VMD do not start (tested restarting etc), what's wrong
>
> I use MacOSX Panther !0.3.3
>
> Earlier versions like e.g. 1.7 have been working no problem
> (unfortunately I seem to have deleted them)
>
> I tested also the now available VMD 1.7 (something MESA with x11 to
> be used), But I find there are a lot of installation instruction now
> that was not there before (as I remember) and I have not yet got it
> either to work (using Mac x11) just because of all the installations
> fuss you must go through as I see it?
>
> I think there were no problems with earlier VMD like 1.7 and all
> worked just fine, but the MacOSX I used was 10.0, 10.1 or something?
>
> I should be very happy to get the latest VMD 1.8.2 to work on
> MacOS10.3.3 without complicated installations.
>
> Please, let me now what's is the problem.
>
> Cheers and thanks in advance
> Peter 

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