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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 08 2007 - 11:26:33 CDT

Charles,
  You need to uninstall the old version before installing VMD 1.8.6.
The new VMD 1.8.6 installer is built using a different version of
InstallShield, and so it may not detect the old version you already
had there, thus causing problems if you install on top of the old one.
Try running the uninstall for your old version(s) make sure there's no
leftover stuff, and then install the new version.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:05:00AM -0400, Charles Cleveland wrote:
> Selecting the Windows OpenGL link for version 1.8.6 (2007-04-07) from
> the page linked to in the recent announcement of same by John Stone on
> the vmd-l mailing list get me a file named vmd186win32.msi (pretty
> promising so far). Clicking on this file doesn't seem to install
> 1.8.6. It seems to install a broken version of 1.8.5, but maybe that's
> left over from the 1.8.5 installation that was previously there.
>
> After installation, the directory C:\Program Files\University of
> Illinois\VMD, contains (listing from cygwin's ls)
>
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 171753 Apr 2 21:06 Uninst.isu
> drwx------+ 2 chas None 0 Apr 2 11:39 doc
> drwx------+ 14 chas None 0 Dec 14 2005 plugins
> drwx------+ 2 chas None 0 Apr 8 08:27 proteins
> drwx------+ 7 chas None 0 Apr 8 08:26 scripts
> drwx------+ 2 chas None 0 Apr 2 21:06 shaders
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 147456 Dec 20 2001 stride_WIN32.exe
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 94208 Dec 20 2001 surf_WIN32.exe
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 139348 Mar 21 01:51 tachyon_WIN32.exe
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 558592 Feb 5 2003 tcl84.dll
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 11776 Jan 9 2003 tcldde12.dll
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 24576 Jan 9 2003 tclpip84.dll
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 12800 Jan 9 2003 tclreg11.dll
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 1007104 Feb 5 2003 tk84.dll
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 2121793 Aug 25 2006 vmd.exe
> -rwx------+ 1 chas None 1808 Jan 26 2006 vmd.rc
>
> These dates look screwy. Running the vmd.exe executable here opens a
> "VMD 1.8.5 OpenGL Display" window and a host of messages like (excuse
> break in file name):
>
> Warning) Rejecting plugin with incorrect ABI version: C:/Program
> Files/University of Illinois/VMD/plugins/WIN32/molfile/biomoccaplugin.so
>
> which did not occur before (I had recently installed 1.8.5). I thought
> the installation of 1.8.5 didn't eliminate the 1.8.4 installation in
> place, but I can't find any sign of 1.8.4 anymore.
>
> --
> Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.
> ------
> Charles Cleveland, School of Physics, Ga Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0430
> charles.cleveland_at_physics.gatech.edu
> 404-894-5219 

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