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From: Jing (jxu_at_acis.ufl.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 23:00:34 CDT

Hi,
Thank you for your reply. I used "vmd -dispdev text" on two Linux machine.
The first one is Redhat 7.3 with kernal 2.4.20-28.7, the error I got is
vmd couldn't find libXft.so.2.
I checked and found there is libXft.so.1 installed in /usr/X11R6/lib
directory.
The other machine is Fedora with kernal 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp, the error
is vmd couldn't find libstdc++.so.5
but there is libstdc++.so.6 in /usr/lib directory on that machine.
Does it mean I must update those libraries to the correct version?
Thanks a lot!
Jing

John Stone wrote:

>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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