[gmx-users] problem in gromacs installation

[Mark Abraham]

nitu sharma wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
>                     I have successfully insstalled gromacs on my 32 bit 
> i686 linux system but when I give the mdrun command for running gromacs  
> on my system the output is  like this
> 
> "mdrun: error while loading shared libraries: 
> /usr/local/gromacs/lib/libmd.so.5: cannot restore segment prot after 
> reloc: Permission denied."
> 
> could you please let me know what exactly the problem is in my 
> installtion and what is the solution of this problem.

Guessing wildly (since you didn't provide any information!), you used 
--enable-shared when you configured GROMACS and your system doesn't 
follow the rules GROMACS expects. Don't use --enable-shared, and try again.

Mark