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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 12:38:06 CDT

Cheri,
  Run this command and tell me what you get:
vmd -dispdev text

If that works, then the next thing to try would be:
  source /usr/local/bin/vmd (wills start/exit as before)
then:
  /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX

Tell me what you get from those steps and I should be able to
determine what's wrong.

We have VMD working fine on a 64-bit WS3 machine here, so I'm
certain I can help you get yours working as well.

  John

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:21:29PM -0500, Cheri M Turman wrote:
> Hi John,
> I think the rpm you suggested works fine now but I have a new problem.
> When I execute vmd, it appears as if the startup window is opening but
> it just flashes and then disappears. Do you think this leads back to
> the libs again or is this something else? If you have no suggestions, I
> may try wiping RH WS3 and going back to debian or xandros since these
> are the OS I am use to running VMD and NAMD on. This is the first time
> of many that I have had so much trouble installing VMD. It is normally
> simple and since I am having issues installing other programs on RH WS3,
> I am thinking RH WS3 is not worth the trouble!
> Cheers,
> Cheri
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Cheri M. Turman
> Graduate Student
> University of Texas-Houston Medical School
> 6431 Fannin
> Houston, TX 77030 USA
>
> e-mail: cheri.m.turman_at_uth.tmc.edu
> Ph.: 713-500-6126
> Fax: 713-500-0652
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:20 pm
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1
>
> >
> > Cheri,
> > I did some more digging on this, and as it turns out, the RH WS3
> > installation doesn't seem to install the 32-bit GLU RPM by default, or
> > at least not consistently. We fixed our machine here by doing this:
> > rpm -force -UVh XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-68-EL.i386.rpm
> >
> > I think that if you're only problem is the missing GLU library, you
> > will be able to fix your machine by following that step (with the
> > appropriateRPM file sitting in the working directory when you run
> > the command...)
> >
> > We're not sure why RH didn't install the 32-bit GLU library in the
> > installation by default, but that seems to cure the type of problem
> > you're having.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:24:12PM -0500, Cheri M Turman wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I just got a new dual xeon system and I'm trying to load vmd. It
> > seems> I am having the same issue with most programs I'm trying to
> > install on
> > > this system. I am running redhat enterprise WS3 and there are
> > always> problems loading shared libraries. It seems that RH dist have
> > > completely changed common dir between the typical RH7-9 versus RH WS
> > > versions.
> > >
> > > Anyway, with vmd, the problem is with libGLU.so.1. This lib is in
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib64/. I made a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/lib/ but
> > this> doesn't seem to be the right dir either. Can anyone direct
> > me where
> > > this lib should be/where vmd wants it to be?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Cheri
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > Cheri M. Turman
> > > Graduate Student
> > > University of Texas-Houston Medical School
> > > 6431 Fannin
> > > Houston, TX 77030 USA
> > >
> > > e-mail: cheri.m.turman_at_uth.tmc.edu
> > > Ph.: 713-500-6126
> > > Fax: 713-500-0652
> >
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> >
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