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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 10:13:41 CDT

Brian,
  I believe that his problem is the 'vmd' startup script not finding 'xterm'.
The 'vmd' in the xterm command line is just the window title. He should be
getting the full path to the /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX executable as
the last item on that xterm line. If not, then that would be indicative
of a problem as well (in that case, I'd guess he didn't actually install
VMD at all and was trying to run it out of the unpacked tar file, which is
a relatively common mistake..)

  John

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:06:03AM -0700, Brian Bennion wrote:
> It seems that "vmd" is the term that "xterm" is choking on.
>
> The startup script doesn't know where to look for the binary?!?
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Priti Hansia wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Xterm has been configured in the default command path. Still the problem
> > exists. Please guide me on this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -priti.
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, John Stone wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Priti,
> > > Perhaps 'xterm' isn't in your default command path, which is what the
> > > VMD startup script is expecting. Make sure that you can type 'xterm'
> > > at your shell prompt, and then I'd expect VMD to cooperate. If not, let me
> > > know and I can tell you how to get around this.
> > >
> > > John Stone
> > > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:17:22PM +0530, Priti Hansia wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I have installed vmd-1.8 on mandrake (version 10.0) linux. But when I try
> > > > to run it from command prompt I get the following error:
> > > >
> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > xterm: Command not found.
> > > > [1] 9886
> > > > [1] Exit 1 exec xterm -T vmd console -geometry
> > > > 80x11-0-0 -sb -sl 1000 -e ...
> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > I have installed xterm also. Even then I get the same error !
> > > > Any help on this will be very much appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > -Priti.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > ___
> > | \
> > |_ /
> > |
> > |riti
> >
>
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