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From: Luis Rosales (ludwig_at_correo.biomedicas.unam.mx)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 18:56:19 CDT

Hi all,

If memory serves right, it sounds like the behaviour that you get when VMD has
not found xterm (I think that VMD uses xterm for the vmd console...).

Just check that typing:

xterm

works on your computer.
Hope this helps,

Ludwig 

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
To: Jing <jxu_at_acis.ufl.edu>
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Sent: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:05:50 -0500
Subject: Re: vmd-l: vmd installation with Mesa installed in a non-standard
location
> Hi,
>   One thing you can do to verify whether VMD is finding your
> Mesa/OpenGL shared libraries is to execute it like this:
>   vmd -dispdev text
> 
> If it starts up normally, then it's finding the libraries, and you're
> having a different problem.  If not, it should print the error it is
> encountering when it starts.  Let us know what you find out.
> 
>   John Stone
>   vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> 
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:53:37AM -0400, Jing wrote:
> > Hi, all
> > I'm trying to install VMD 1.8.3 on a Linux machine. I have already 
> > installed Mesa but not in the standard location. I also edited mesa dir 
> > in the configure script to point to the Mesa library, and followed the 
> > installation instructions to install the VMD. But only a window flashed 
> > once, then disappeared when I run vmd. Could anyone help me solve this 
> > problem? Thanks a lot!
> > 
> > Jing
> 
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