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From: Peter Engelhardt (engelhar_at_medi.mappi.helsinki.fi)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 02:18:27 CST

Dear All,

Thanks to all who responded.
I followed the instructions given - no change.

Finally looked on my PowerBool where VMD 1.8,1 was installed and that worked.
I looked if there was a .cshrc and there was - No such file.

Eliminated the .cshrc on my iMac that cured the problem.

VMD works again.

I do not know how the .cshrc had appeared on my iMac but it might
have to do with my earlier playing with fink installations or
something as .cshrc contained:
source /sw/bin/init.csh (or something? I think /sw is associated with fink)

Cheers and thanks again
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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