VMD-L Mailing List

From: Vermaas, Josh (vermaasj_at_msu.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 05 2022 - 10:13:17 CST

Hi Alain,

Spack can’t automatically download VMD, since VMD requires that users accept a license before offering a download. Download a VMD source package, and I think Spack should be able to figure out the rest.

-Josh

From: <owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of Arsene Marian Alain <alain.arsene_at_uah.es>
Date: Monday, December 5, 2022 at 3:30 AM
To: "vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Subject: vmd-l: Issue install VMD 1.9.3 Spack

Dear VMD developers/users,

I am trying to install VMD 1.9.3 on my small HPC cluster with Spack. All dependencies seem to build correctly but when running the VMD install I get the following error message:

==> Installing vmd-1.9.3-tgbutsecur6xkglmkeno237xvc3rbi7p
==> No binary for vmd-1.9.3-tgbutsecur6xkglmkeno237xvc3rbi7p found: installing from source
==> Error: FetchError: Manual download is required for vmd. Refer to https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/$> for download instructions.

/usr/local/spack/lib/spack/spack/package.py:1387, in do_fetch:
        1384
        1385 self.stage.create()
        1386 err_msg = None if not self.manual_download else self.download_instr
>> 1387 start_time = time.time()
        1388 self.stage.fetch(mirror_only, err_msg=err_msg)
        1389 self._fetch_time = time.time() - start_time
        1390

Attached to this email is the Spack output file. If someone could help me I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance,

best regards

Alain