then try the command “vmd” typing in terminal, if the vmd works, the interface will jump out. You will see some words like “enjoy it”, which means you have successfully install the vmd. If this requires you to add the configuration option, please change it to Here, i choose the “ LINUX OpenGL, CUDA” with 32 bits LINUX.ī) after finish download, then release the zip file at any where you like, i use the right click on zip file to release it, otherwise you can refer to the help the command like zip, gzip, tar, i’m not sure which one is for zip file.Ĭ)after release the zip file, then get into the vmd folder, likeĪnd then to generate the make file by running the configuration file, if you want to edit the configuration file, please refer to official installation guide, here i left it unchanged. (2) build up the VMD with precomplied package, and address the display error.Ī) to download the VMD installation package, carefully choose the version of Linux, the method of query the bits of operation system can be found in my another blog, “the notes on python”. However, there still will be someone confronts various errors, which it shows install successfully, but get no reply while typing ‘vmd’ command in terminal, the reason i thought will be that it lacks the graphical display server as referred in the first method, thus, you can have a try to make them up after installing the pre-compiled version of VMD. In which, the edit of configuration file is optional, and i’ve chosen the default value. The other way is to install pre-compiled version of VMD, which is pretty easy with following link’s instructions, and will save you lots of time if you are not so familiar of Linux like me, One is to build the VMD manually, from installing supporting packages, downloading the binaries packages, compiling the plug-ins, then compiling VMD, and installing a graphical display server finally, as what the below link instructs, Generally, by the saying from VMD distributor, there are two different methods of building VMD on Linux, (1) two major methods to build up the VMD on Linux
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