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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 28 2007 - 15:35:26 CDT

Hi,
  Installing the missing /bin/csh shell on that system
should cure this problem.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 03:37:30AM +0000, Claw Isthelaw wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> > 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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