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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 03 2020 - 09:52:16 CDT

please read the installation instructions that come with the binary
package and follow them. the binaries are compiled such that they work
on a vast majority of systems and there usually is no need to compile
VMD. compiling VMD from source is quite elaborate since it has many
dependencies and does not use any of the common build/configuration
tools. that requires following the compilation instructions *very*
carefully and usually some setting of environment variables and
editing of the configuration perl script.

axel.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 10:37 AM Keister, Bradley <bkeister_at_ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> Looking at the distribution, I don’t see a Makefile option for Ubuntu, only Red Hat and other distributors. Is there such an option?
>
> When I try ‘make’, I get a steady stream of errors regarding missing packages. The latest error concerns missing XInput.h. Since running make stops at each such failure point, I don’t know how many more there will be.
>
> Has anyone found a way to build this on Ubuntu? There are at least three YouTube videos that simply state that you type “sudo make install” and nothing else. Those don’t work for me.
>
> 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.