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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2008 - 23:48:11 CDT

Peter,
  A quick google on "tcsh META_CLASS undefined" found me this, which
appears to be a likely solution to your problem:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-programming-scripting/108793-tcsh-prompt-returns-meta_class-undefined-variable.html

The answer in the second post down the page there seems to look
reasonable to me. That topic was from November 2007, so it's recent
enough to warrant have a look at it.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:07:55PM +1000, Peter Hains wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> thanks for the quick reply. I appreciate the help and again I know it's
> art of a learning curve. I've installed tcsh (ver 6.15.00) as I couldn't
> install a version of csh. (I did try by running sudo apt-get install
> csh, but I was essentially told the "Package csh has no installation
> candidate").
>
> So, I've installed tcsh. Just to be paranoid, I re-installed VMD. I now
> get the following error:
>
> META_CLASS: Undefined variable
>
> Some searching suggested it may be the version I had installed (I
> originally had 6.14 installed). I've got the same issue with ver
> 6.15.00. To my inexperienced eye, this appears to be related to tcsh
> rather than VMD. So if this is off topic for the VMD list, could you
> point me to where I may be able to find assistance?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Peter 

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