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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 14:09:52 CDT

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. 

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