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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 12:45:19 CST

Sabuj,
  If running the script opens and closes an xterm immediately, we need
to figure out why. VMD will not run correctly if you start the binary
manually. What happens when you run VMD like this:
  vmd -dispdev text

Do you have /bin/csh installed on your machine?

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:41:13PM -0600, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get this error when I start vmd 1.8.3 (you have to run
> /path/to/vmd/vmd_LINUX since just running the vmd script opens a window
> and it closes immediately):
>
> ERROR) Tcl startup error: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
> directories:
> ERROR) /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 /usr/local/sbin/lib/tcl8.4
> /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 /usr/local/sbin/library /usr/local/library
> /usr/local/tcl8.4.1/library /usr/tcl8.4.1/library /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4
> ERROR)
> ERROR)
> ERROR)
> ERROR) This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> ERROR) Tk startup error: invalid command name "tcl_findLibrary"
> ERROR) VMDDIR undefined, startup failure likely.
> ERROR) Could not read the vmd initialization file -
> ERROR) source {/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl}
> ERROR) couldn't read file "/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl":
> no such file or directory
> ERROR) The VMDDIR environment variable is set by the startup
> ERROR) script and should point to the top of the VMD hierarchy.
> ERROR) VMD will continue with limited functionality.
> ERROR) invalid command name "vmd_load_extension_packages"
>
> I installed it according to the instructions (remove old vmd
> installtion; modify configure, run ./configure, and cd src; make
> install). Just to make sure there isn't anything wrong with the system I
> did a fresh install of vmd 1.8.2 and it works. The vmd 1.8.3 script has:
>
> set defaultvmddir=/usr/local/sbin/vmd
> set vmdbasename=vmd
>
> slocate init.tcl
>
> /usr/lib/tcl8.4/init.tcl
> /usr/local/sbin/vmd/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl
> /usr/local/sbin/vmd/scripts/tcl8.4/init.tcl
> /usr/local/sbin/pymol/ext/lib/tcl8.4/init.tcl
> /usr/local/sbin/chimera1.2065/lib/tcl8.4/init.tcl
> /usr/local/sbin/ac3dlx/lib/tcl8.4/init.tcl
> /root/vmd-1.8.2/lib/scripts/tcl8.4/init.tcl
> /root/vmd-1.8.2/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl
> /root/vmd-1.8.3/lib/scripts/tcl8.4/init.tcl
> /root/vmd-1.8.3/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl
>
> Thanks,
> Sabuj Pattanayek 

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