That's good. But true enough, there's no mention of this in the docs. I suppose it should be at the start of the Chapter on the GUI. I'm wondering too whether should we rename the executable to obgui or so, in keeping with the other executables.
- Noel On 30 June 2011 15:38, Steven Wathen <swat...@sienaheights.edu> wrote: > Hi Noel, > > Thanks. > > If I run OBGUI on the command line I do get the GUI window. I don't remember > seeing this anywhere in the documentation - did I miss it, or is it something > that should be added? > > Thanks again, > > 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 > ________________________________________ > From: Noel O'Boyle [baoille...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:04 AM > To: Steven Wathen > Cc: openbabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Open Babel] building Open Babel on Ubuntu > > If the build and install worked, you should find it at > /usr/local/bin/OBGUI, or something similar. > > - Noel > > On 30 June 2011 12:40, Steven Wathen <swat...@sienaheights.edu> wrote: >> 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. 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