VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 16 2016 - 14:14:50 CST

Francesco,
  From your emails, I'm having a hard time determining what problem(s)
you are or are not having.
I gather from the previous email that you get the warning about 'rlwrap',
but your emails were unclear about whether you were having any other problem?

You can prevent the rlwrap problem by commenting out the associated code in the VMD startup script by commenting out the following lines of text in the
so they look as below:

csh variant of VMD startup script:
----------------------------------
# detect if we have rlwrap available to have commandline editing
set vmdprefixcmd=""
## if (("${ARCH}" == "LINUX") || ("${ARCH}" == "LINUXAMD64")) then
## set rlwrap=`which rlwrap`
## if ( -x "$rlwrap" ) then
## if ( -f ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat ) then
## set vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ -f ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat "
## else
## set vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ "
## endif
## endif
## endif

sh/bash variant of VMD startup script:
--------------------------------------
# detect if we have rlwrap available to have commandline editing
## case $MACHARCH in
## *Linux*)
## if hash rlwrap 2>/dev/null
## then
## if [ -f "${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat" ]
## then
## vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ -f ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat "
## else
## vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ "
## fi
## else
## vmdprefixcmd=""
## fi
## ;;
##
## *)
## vmdprefixcmd=""
## ;;
## esac
vmdprefixcmd=""

If you do this, it will disable the use of 'rlwrap' in the VMD startup code.

If you're having other issues aside from the rlwrap warnings, please
let us know, and be specific about what they are and/or what error
messages you are getting, if any, from VMD or from Linux.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:49:21AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I must add that there is no vmd-1.9.3 problem with the workstation (same
> OS as the problematic desktop, i.e., Debian GNU amd64 jessie stable,
> however graph interface Xfce; the gnome3 graph interface of the
> problematic desktop is, to my experience, another issue of gnome since the
> introduction of version 3)
>
> francesco pietra
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Francesco Pietra <[1]chiendarret_at_gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 8:43 AM
> Subject: vmd-l: vmd1.9.23 rlwrap: No match
> To: VMD Mailing List <[2]vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
>
> Hallo:
>
> To replace vmd 1.9.2 I have now installed vmd 1 9.3 (
> vmd-1.9.3.bin.LINUXAMD64-CUDA8-OptiX4-OSPRay111p1.opengl.tar.gz) on Debian
> GNU Linux amd64 (Debian 8 jessy stable) using default /usr/local/bin and
> /usr/local/lib (previous renaming the 1.9.2. version exec and lib)
> getting. At command "vmd", the error
>
> rlwrap: No match
>
> This is well known since many years but on Internet, as far as packaging
> .deb is concerned, now I only find notes for ubunto, which, other than
> being no GNU Linux, has nothing to do with Debian, except using the same
> packaging mode.
>
> I was using a box without CUDA but I also have a workstation with same OS,
> CUDA and GTX, where vmd 1.9.2 is working correctly.
> Thanks for advice
>
> francesco pietra
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. mailto:chiendarret_at_gmail.com
> 2. mailto:vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu 

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