Thanks for tip on setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, that helped a lot, but I still don't see the GUI anywhere.
Just be to sure I hadn't missed anything, I repeated the build and install procedure. I got a message saying that it found WXwidgets and that the GUI would be built, but I can't find the GUI - How am I supposed to access it if it has been built? These are the Wxwidget packages I have installed through the Ubuntu package manager: wx2.8-headers libwxgtk2.8-0 wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxbase2.8-0 libwxbase2.8-dev ________________________________________ From: Noel O'Boyle [baoille...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 9:35 AM To: Steven Wathen Cc: openbabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Open Babel] building Open Babel on Ubuntu On 25 June 2011 22:03, Steven Wathen <swat...@sienaheights.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I just tried compiling OpenBabel 2.3.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid and I have a > couple of questions. > > I had been using openbabel 2.2.2 which I had installed through the Ubuntu > repositories - I uninstalled the old version before building Openbabel 2.3 > following directions on: > > http://openbabel.org/docs/2.3.0/Installation/install.html > > I used the following cmake command > > cmake ../openbabel-2.3.0 -DBUILD_GUI=ON -DPYTHON_BINDINGS=ON > -DPERL_BINDINGS=ON > > and I added " /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages" to the PYTHONPATH > > I can successfully run obabel from the command line, but I mostly use open > babel from Python using pybel. I get error when try to import pybel in > python: > >>>> from pybel import * > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pybel.py", line 16, in <module> > import openbabel as ob > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/openbabel.py", line 63, in > <module> > _openbabel = swig_import_helper() > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/openbabel.py", line 59, in > swig_import_helper > _mod = imp.load_module('_openbabel', fp, pathname, description) > ImportError: libopenbabel.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory On Linux, to find an ".so", the folder containing it needs to be added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib" or so. > Can you tell me why I am unable to import the pybel bindings in python? How > can I fix this? > > Also - I meant to build the OpenBabelGUI, but I can't find it. How do you > access the OpenBabel GUI on Linux? wxWidgets is required to build the GUI. When you run CMake, you will see a message saying it couldn't find it. See the docs (http://openbabel.org/docs/2.3.0/Installation/install.html#compiling-open-babel) for more info. > Thanks, > > Steve > > ------------- > Dr. Steven P. Wathen > Associate Professor of Chemistry > Siena Heights University > 1247 East Siena Heights Drive > Adrian, MI 49221 > > (517) 264-7657 > swat...@sienaheights.edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 > _______________________________________________ > OpenBabel-discuss mailing list > OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
