[gmx-users] How to use "gmx view" on Ubuntu?

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/10/17 4:27 PM, ZHANG Cheng wrote:
> Dear Mark,
> Yes, Justin gave me a link for Gromacs-2016.3, but not the link for xorg-dev.
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Because you installed the necessary X11 components via apt-get.

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> Do you mean, I should uninstall my current Gromacs 5.0.4, then install the Gromacs-2016.3, so that I can use the "gmx view" in the Gromacs-2016.3 on my Ubuntu?
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Yes.  If you want any GROMACS version enabled with gmx view, you need the 
prerequisite X11 libraries and headers, and then you have to recompile GROMACS.

-Justin

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> From:  "ZHANG Cheng";<272699575 at qq.com>;
> Date:  Thu, May 11, 2017 02:50 AM
> To:  "gromacs.org_gmx-users"<gromacs.org_gmx-users at maillist.sys.kth.se>;
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> Subject:  Re:  Re:   Re:  How to use "gmx view" on Ubuntu?
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> Dear Justin,
> Thank you for your link. I know how to install the Gromacs based on your link. But do you know where I can download the tar.gz file so that I can compile it and then use "gmx view"?
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> Thank you.
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> Cheng
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> From:  "ZHANG Cheng";<272699575 at qq.com>;
> Date:  Wed, May 10, 2017 11:27 PM
> To:  "gromacs.org_gmx-users"<gromacs.org_gmx-users at maillist.sys.kth.se>;
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> Subject:  Re:  Re:  How to use "gmx view" on Ubuntu?
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> Dear Mark Abraham,
> Thank you very much for your updating.
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> Sorry, could you please tell me where can I download the cmake file, or which command line to use, in order to compiling & installing?
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> I have tried the below and they both worked, but "gmx view …" still not work, with the same issue "Compiled without X-Windows - can not run viewer."
> ) sudo apt-get install xorg-dev
> ) sudo apt-get install xorg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
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> (Sorry, I am not sure how to find the files to download)
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> Thank you.
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> Yours sincerely
> Cheng
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> From:  "ZHANG Cheng";<272699575 at qq.com>;
> Date:  Wed, May 10, 2017 04:22 AM
> To:  "gromacs.org_gmx-users"<gromacs.org_gmx-users at maillist.sys.kth.se>;
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> Subject:  Re: How to use "gmx view" on Ubuntu?
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> Dear Gromacs and Mark Abraham,
> Sorry, I am not familiar with compiling issue.
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> I installed xorg-dev by:
> sudo apt-get install xorg-dev
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> Then, I type
> cmake .. -DGMX_X11=on
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> But I was told:
> CMake Error: The source directory "/home/lanselibai/Cheng/gromacs/... ..." does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
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> What I should do next?
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> Thank you.
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> Cheng
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> ------------------ Original ------------------
> From:  "ZHANG Cheng";<272699575 at qq.com>;
> Date:  Wed, May 10, 2017 02:58 AM
> To:  "gromacs.org_gmx-users"<gromacs.org_gmx-users at maillist.sys.kth.se>;
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> Subject:  How to use "gmx view" on Ubuntu?
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> Dear Gromacs,
> I am running Gromacs 5.0.4 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.
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> When I run "gmx view ..." as below:
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> gmx view -f dppc-md.xtc -s dppc-md.tpr
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> I got the following:
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> Compiled without X-Windows - can not run viewer.
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> Can I ask how to use "gmx view" on Ubuntu? Thank you.
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> Yours sincerely
> Cheng
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