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From: Brian Kidd (bkidd_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 18:37:32 CDT

Hello,

I downloaded the latest release of VMD 1.8.4 and am using the
LinuxAMD64 version with the default installation settings.
Unfortunately, the start up scripts seem to be configured improperly
because VMD won't start up.

I've included the outputs from a few different checks to see what is
going wrong. I haven't been able to figure out what file I need to
install or what setting I should change. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian

checking the links

ldd vmd_LINUXAMD64
         libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 (0x0000003c9a600000)
         libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libGLU.so.1 (0x0000003c9d400000)
         libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x0000003c94500000)
         libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000003c95300000)
         libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003c93d00000)
         libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x0000003c98d00000)
         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x0000003c99700000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x0000003c93b00000)
         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000003c98f00000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003c93800000)
         libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x0000003c94900000)
         libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libXxf86vm.so.1
(0x0000003c9a400000)
         libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2 (0x0000003c9d600000)
         libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x0000003c94100000)
         libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x0000003c93f00000)
         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003c93400000)

./vmd_LINUXAMD64 -dispdev none

Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.4 (April 17, 2006)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
ERROR) Tcl startup error: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
directories:
ERROR) /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 /usr/local/lib/lib/tcl8.4
/usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 /usr/local/lib/library /usr/local/library
/usr/local/tcl8.4.1/library /usr/tcl
ERROR)
ERROR)
ERROR)
ERROR) This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
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) can't find package http 2.4
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"

./vmd_LINUXAMD64 -dispdev win

Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.4 (April 17, 2006)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
XRequest.143: GLXBadContext 0x2e00045
Segmentation fault