Some distributives (gentoo, openSuse, etc.) contains default Pymol љwithout vmd molfile plugins. By the way these plugins are essential because give an ability to open trj, xtc, cube and other different useful file formats. Here is step-by-step instruction to compile pymol-1.4.x on openSuse 12.1 but I suppose it might work on other distributives as well.
- Download pymol sources from sourceforge: pymol-1.4.1
- Unpack it and read in INSTALL file what packages are essential:
?Note that you must have OpenGL, glut, libpng, tcl/tk, python,
freetype2, and Pmw already installed on your system for this to work.? - Check the file layer3/Executive.c and find the line witch includes ce_types.h. It might be:
?#include»../modules/cealign/src/ce_types.h»?
Correct if it differs! - Open file setup.py and uncomment everything related to VMD molfile. There are 3 places you should uncomment!
- Run:
$>python setup.py build
$>python setup.py install
$>python setup2.py install - If something wrong, clean builds with command:
$>python setup.py clean —all
and try again! - Don’t try to use ./configure-make-make-install way. It crashes and probably doesn’t supported.
Good luck!