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From: Pawel Kedzierski (pawel.kedzierski_at_pwr.edu.pl)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2020 - 02:19:13 CST

Joey,
This information is what John asked for, so I am replying to the list.
Pawel

W dniu 04.02.2020 o 23:16, Joey Gehring pisze:
> Hello again,
> Here are the results of the commands I ran.
>
> jgehring_at_Debian-Desktop:~$ gcc --version
> gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516
>
> I have installed tk and tcl versions 8.6 from the default repos.
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 4:23 AM Pawel Kedzierski
> <pawel.kedzierski_at_pwr.edu.pl <mailto:pawel.kedzierski_at_pwr.edu.pl>> wrote:
>
> W dniu 04.02.2020 o 03:47, Joey Gehring pisze:
>> I am seeing that openGL ES is available and I am unsure if this
>> will be enough to build NAMD or VMD. Do you happen to know more
>> about this?
>
> For NAMD you do not need OpenGL at all, but use the latest source
> code ("nightly build") and also compile FFTW yourself as advised
> here <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/development.html> cause
> the Debian fftw-dev package is compiled in double precision I
> think. As John suggested earlier you may need a specific version
> of CHARMM++ <https://github.com/UIUC-PPL/charm> (but I would first
> try with the one bundled with latest NAMD sources).
>
> I did compile namd once a while ago but on intel platform and it
> went straightforward. It it does nor work for you, you may need to
> ask on namd-l list instead of vmd-l.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pawel
>