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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 09:48:35 CST

Peter,
  You'll want to see if there are errors in /sw/bin/init.csh
as it could be a problem in the Fink initialization script that is
interfering with VMD's startup, since you probably want to be able to
use the software installed by Fink, it would be worth looking into a
little more. Its probably something simple. Thanks for following up
on this, it'll help the next person that runs into trouble.

  John

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:18:27AM +0200, Peter Engelhardt wrote:
> 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
> >
> >--
> >NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> >Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> 

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NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349              
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078