VMD-L Mailing List

From: Peter Freddolino (petefred_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 14:02:32 CDT

You need to install csh to get vmd working properly, as it is used by
the startup script to set several other environment variables. Just a

sudo apt-get install csh

should get you on your way.

Best,
Peter

Jana Black wrote:
> 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
>