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From: Sabuj Pattanayek (sabuj.pattanayek_at_Vanderbilt.Edu)
Date: Thu Feb 09 2006 - 13:58:18 CST

For those of you using gentoo linux I found a gentoo dev who has created
an ebuild for v1.8.3 . It can be easily modified to compile and install
the latest source.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/overlay/sci-chemistry/

You'll need to put it in a ebuild overlay directory (and set
PORTDIR_OVERLAY= in /etc/make.conf) since these ebuilds have not yet
been included in the production gentoo portage repository.

I don't know whether the ebuild works but I'm going to try this as soon
as I get a chance.

>>I would definitely like to make it easier for people to build VMD
>>from source code, so I'm willing to accept any suggestions that
>>would make the source distribution much easier to use.
>
> Well, I for one am very fond of building packages from source RPMs on
> Linux; it gives repeatability for compiles _and_ installs (including
> uninstalls !). If I could download source RPMs of VMD and the various
> libraries and just run for each of them
>
> "rpmbuild --rebuild package.src.rpm"