From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 08:46:05 CST

Hi,
  Try running VMD like this:
vmd -dispdev text

See what error messages that produces.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:27:12PM +0100, maria goranovic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have tried installing VMD on Ubuntu 8.10 Although the installation seems
> to go smoothly, when I run vmd, the windows pop up quickly and disappear ...
> no core is dumped to the location from where I am running VMD. What could be
> the problem ? TCL and Python are installed. How can I clean older attempts
> to install VMD ?
>
> Thank you for the suggestions
>
> --
> Maria G.
> Technical University of Denmark
> Copenhagen

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