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From: Claw Isthelaw (clawisthelaw_at_hotmail.com)
Date: Sun May 27 2007 - 22:37:30 CDT

Maybe you do not have the vmd executible located in your /usr/local/bin directory. Also you may be running the wrong executible. I'm not sure where yours is, but mine is: /Applications/VMD.1.8.6/Contents/MacOS/VMDLauncher
This is a shell script which does a couple of things including running the following program: /Applications/VMD.1.8.6/Contents/vmd/vmd_MACOSXX86 It looks like you are trying to run your vmd_LINUX executible directly and it's giving you trouble. Try finding the scriptfile which runs it for you.

Jeff

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> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:44:00 -0400
> From: jblack13_at_utk.edu
> To: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: vmd-l: Installation Error Involving TLC
>
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to install VMD 1.8.6 on Ubuntu 7.04. After downloading the
> tar.gz file from your website, this is what I did:
>
> tar zxvf ~/Desktop/vmd-1.8.6.bin.LINUX.opengl.tar.gz
> cd vmd-1.8.6
> ./configure LINUX
> cd src
> sudo make install
>
>
> I know that after the "make install" VDM should run with
> /usr/local/bin/vmd, but when I type that this is the result:
>
> bash: /usr/local/bin/vmd: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>
>
> However, I can run VDM with ./vmd-1.8.6/LINUX/vmd_LINUX, but I receive
> the following errors:
>
> ERROR) Tcl startup error: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
> ERROR) /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 /home/jblack/vmd-1.8.6/lib/tcl8.4 /home/jblack/lib/tcl8.4 /home/jblack/vmd-1.8.6/library /home/jblack/library /home/jblack/tcl8.4.1/library /home/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) 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.
>
>
> Then it gives me a list of about 50 packages that will not load. I've
> tried to install older versions and add flags ./configure command,
> without much luck. Is there something I need to edit in the configure
> file? Do you have any other suggestions?
>
> Thank you,
> Jana Black
>
>

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