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From: Raman Preet Singh (ramanpreetsingh_at_hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2024 - 09:25:10 CDT

WSL1 or WSL2 on Win 10 doesn't support GUI. Are you on Win 10 or Win 11?

Regards,
Raman

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Subject: Re: vmd-l: Opening file after i downloaded vmd

Hi Micah,

Does WSL have libXinerama installed? If not, it should just be a simple sudo apt install libxinerama1 away!

-Josh

From: <owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of Micah Watson <micahnwatson007_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
To: Giacomo Fiorin <giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com>
Cc: "vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: vmd-l: Opening file after i downloaded vmd

It does have a working graphical display. I am using Ubuntu with wsl. Wsl is a windows subsystem for Linux. I don't know if this information helps but I also have the windows version of VMD downloaded.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 9:54 AM Giacomo Fiorin <giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com<mailto:giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi Micah, is this on a machine that has a graphical display working?

The missing library that VMD can't find is a standard component of graphical software on Linux.

Giacomo

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 4:07 AM Micah Watson <micahnwatson007_at_gmail.com<mailto:micahnwatson007_at_gmail.com>> wrote:

Hello all,

I am having difficulties opening vmd and it says I have successfully downloaded it.

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Here is the code and steps I take:

# I am trying to install the linux version of vmd vmd_LINUXAMD64
 make install
Info: /bin/csh shell not found, installing Bourne shell startup script instead
Make sure /usr/local/bin/vmd is in your path.
VMD installation complete. Enjoy!
#Then I type
 vmd
#The output is this
/usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUXAMD64: error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Please let me know if you have any solutions.

Thank you,

Micah Watson