From: Jerry Ebalunode (jebalunode_at_uh.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 13 2005 - 15:02:05 CDT

The problem seems to be from the absence of libstdc++.so.5.
see ldd output
"libstdc++.so.5 => not found"
Installing the above library should fix the problem.

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 02:42 pm, FyD wrote:
> Dear All,
> libstdc++.so.5 => not found
> I just installed the binary version of VMD 1.8.3 on Linux FC 4.0 (32 bit
> intel cpu):
> ./configure; cd src; make install; update $PATH in .cshrc
>
> If I execute 'vmd', the program is opened and then automatially close all
> the windows...
>
> Any idea what could be the problem ?
>
> Thanks, regards, Francois
>
> [/usr/local/lib/vmd]$ ldd vmd_LINUX
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00875000)
> libGL.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x00793000)
> libGLU.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x00b86000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x005bd000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x0044b000)
> libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x0061e000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00430000)
> libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00d25000)
> libstdc++.so.5 => not found
> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x0040a000)
> libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00633000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x002de000)
> libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0x00df9000)
> libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00521000)
> libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00654000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x002c0000)
> libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x005fd000)
> libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x005d1000)
> libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x00532000)
> libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00553000)
> libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00436000)
> [

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