The following operating systems are presently supported:
VIEWMOL 2.2.1 is provided precompiled for a number of architectures. Precompiled binaries are packaged separately from source, documentation, and examples:
viewmol-2.2.1.bin.lesstif.tgz
and statically linked with Motif
in viewmol-2.2.1.bin.static.tgz
(requires glibc2 distribution like
RedHat 5.0 or Debian 2.0)viewmol-2.2.1.bin.IRIX.tgz
viewmol-2.2.1.bin.AIX.tgz
viewmol-2.2.1.bin.OSF1.tgz
Before installing VIEWMOL you need to make sure that the following libraries are available:
ifl_eoe
and ifl_dev
packages
have been installed. For other systems you need to obtain and compile
this library (e. g. from sgi.com under
graphics/tiff/tiff-v3.4-tar.gz)
Installation of the program is simple. VIEWMOL comes as gzipped tar
file, viewmol-2.2.1.src.tgz
. Unzip and untar it using
gunzip viewmol-2.2.1.src.tgz
and
tar -xvf viewmol-2.2.1.src.tar
. You get three subdirectories,
source
, man
, and examples
, four resource
files (English, German, Russian, French), Xdefaults.*
, and the configuration file
viewmolrc
. Copy all files you got into an arbitrary directory. If you
want to install precompiled binaries, download the appropriate file for your
operating system and unpack it from the same directory you unpacked the source
code. This will create a subdirectory in the source directory which holds the
binaries (the name of this directory starts with the name of your operating
system as you get it from uname -s
and may contain a CPU specific
ending). If you run the supported operating systems you have to set the
environment variable $VIEWMOLPATH
to point to the directory where
you unpacked VIEWMOL (the compiled-in default for VIEWMOLPATH
is /usr/local/lib/viewmol
) and the installation is complete. Otherwise
you have to recompile the program (cf. p. ). The program
uses dynamical memory allocation so that every size of a molecule can be
handled which fits the hardware limits of your workstation.
The installation directory also contains a file viewmolrc
. You might
have a look into this file and adapt it to your needs. The format is described
at page . In general the defaults should work fine.
VIEWMOL uses by default English as language, but it has been written so
that other languages can easily be used. The distribution contains files
Xdefaults.<language>
which contain all the program messages, menus,
dialog boxes etc. in other languages (currently English, German, Russian, and
French). If you want to use a different language for a system wide installation,
copy the corresponding Xdefaults.<language>
file to your applications
default directory (usually /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults
) and rename it to
Viewmol
. If you want to use a different language only for some users,
instruct them to configure the language through VIEWMOL's
Configuration
menu. VIEWMOL will run without any of the
Xdefaults.<language>
files installed. So if you are happy with English
and want to change only a few settings you don't need to install any of the
Xdefaults.<language>
files.
VIEWMOL needs a few external programs for some of its functions. Once
you have installed VIEWMOL and set VIEWMOLPATH
, you can start
VIEWMOL, press Cancel
in the file selection box which will appear,
and press the right mouse button in the blue VIEWMOL window. A popup
menu will appear where the last but one option is Configuration ...
.
Choosing this option displays a dialog where you can set path names to four
external programs. These are (including their defaults):
Location of Web browser: netscape %s Location of Moloch: moloch Location of Rayshade: rayshade Location of display program for RLE files: xv %sIf these program are installed and can be found in your path VIEWMOL will automatically display the correct path names in the dialog. The
%s
is a placeholder for the file name and is required for programs which use
command line arguments. Once you have set these path names, choose Save
from the buttons in the dialog and these settings will be stored permanently
in $HOME/.Xdefaults
.