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tar.gz files that are not included in apt - need manual install

molden
molekel
Swiss PDB View
Sparky

Please refer to the README files for instructions specific to each package. There are however some catches that can complicate the install and thus need to be addressed:

MOLDEN

This one should be easy install. follow the instructions in the README file

MOLEKEL

• use version 4.3, not the latest 5.3
• see this page for most of the instructions
• Most probably the following will show up: error while loading shared libraries libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
• More recent flavours of Linux come with the newer libtiff.so.4. and molekel is too stupid to use the newer library
• cd into /usr/lib and create a soft link: ln -s libtiff.so.4 libtiff.so.3
• everything should work after that

SPARKY

• unzip to desired location (preferably /usr/local/sparky)
• make a soft link to the executable in /usr/bin
• likely to see this error: bash: /usr/bin/sparky: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
• if that happens install csh using either apt or synaptic

SPDBV

• uzip and run ./install.sh
• most likely error message: error while loading shared libraries libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
• if this happens apt-get install libmotif3