Tutorial:Installation VMD on LINUX_64

Question

[Hassan Rasouli]

For installation following the steps below:

Download it from (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/) Then in the terminal type:

cd Downloads
tar -zxvf vmd-1.9.1.bin.LINUXAMD64.opengl.tar.gz

This will extract the folder to your downloads folder. You can then just

cd vmd-1.9.1
./configure LINUXAMD64
cd src
sudo make install

Then type your password. The 'sudo' command tells your computer that you request to be allowed the permission to install the program into your computers default directory (e.g. /usr/local) when you run the next set of commands from the terminal.

Don't worry the install will find its way to the right place. You don't actually need to edit as the ReadMe file implies,

To test:

vmd

Or to run with a trajectory file:

vmd myFile.xyz

NOTE: If you do not have administrative rights (i.e. you cannot use the 'su' or 'sudo' commands on your computer, then expect to see an error like:

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/lib/vmd’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/lib/vmd’: Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 1

To fix this then the only thing you need do is create a folder and call it 'install' then in that folder create another folder called 'lib64' and then change the command:

 ./configure LINUXAMD64

To

./configure --prefix=/path/to/home/install --libdir=/path/to/home/install/lib64 LINUXAMD64

[Michael]

Note, there is no need to run more commands as root than absolutely required, like install, in particular no proper sysadmin will run configure by sudo. Also, if you followed the steps including su, you would silently run any following command as root.

[Hassan Rasouli]

thank you for your mention. I was using it for installing VMD in my project. but you are right I fully agree with you.

[naijuthomas100]

I followed the above mentioned commands to download and install vmd on my ubuntu 16.04 OS and it showed following result chmod +x run_vmd_tmp ; \ cp run_vmd_tmp "/usr/local/bin"/vmd ; \ rm -f run_vmd_tmp echo Make sure "/usr/local/bin"/vmd is in your path. Make sure /usr/local/bin/vmd is in your path. echo "VMD installation complete. Enjoy!" VMD installation complete. Enjoy!

BUT WHEN I TRIED TO CHECK IF IT IS INSTALLED I GOT ERROR MESSAGE AS user@user-300E4C-300E5C-300E7C:~$ vmd rlwrap: Command not found. /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUXAMD64: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenGL.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

PLEASE HELP,