Dear all, the problem with installing PyMol under Windows-XP (see message below) has been solved. I tried all kinds of tricks (including reinventing the wheel a number of times) but the only effective way to fix the problem was to reinstall the operating system from scratch, as has also been suggested by Warren. I am happy to report that PyMol 0.99 runs great on the new DELL Latitude 620 with a T2400 Centrino-Duo (1.83 GHz), 1GB RAM and the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950. This is indeed a very nice system for the mobile structural biologist for a very good price, and it only weighs 2 kg. I am already running a number of crystallographic applications (e.g the full CCP4 v6 release for windows including Coot) alongside my other software applications.
best wishes Savvas ----- Forwarded message from "Savvas N. Savvides" <[email protected]> ----- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 12:36:08 +0200 From: "Savvas N. Savvides" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [PyMOL] problems with pymol installation To: [email protected] Dear colleagues, I am trying to install pymol v0.99 on a new laptop running windows XP but the installer keeps giving an error message that my specified path does not exist. This is quite striking to me because the extracted files do indeed have the path that the installer is complaining about! So the path does exist! Upon restarting the computer hoping to solve the problem with path recognition, I get a system error about the ntvdm.exe emulator. Is this a related problem? Would that also be a sign that I should reinstall the operating system from scratch? I just got the computer and this may be the most appropriate time to do it. Thanks in advance for any input Savvas ----- Savvas N. Savvides Professor of Structural Biology Ghent University Laboratory for Protein Biochemistry K.L.Ledeganckstraat 35 9000 Ghent, BELGIUM Phone: +32-(0)9-264.51.24 ; +32-(0)472-92.85.19 FAX: +32-(0)9-264.53.38 Email: [email protected] ----- End forwarded message ----- --Title: problems with pymol installation
Dear colleagues,
I am trying to install pymol v0.99 on a new laptop running windows XP but the installer keeps giving an error message that my specified path does not exist. This is quite striking to me because the extracted files do indeed have the path that the installer is complaining about! So the path does exist! Upon restarting the computer hoping to solve the problem with path recognition, I get a system error about the ntvdm.exe emulator. Is this a related problem? Would that also be a sign that I should reinstall the operating system from scratch? I just got the computer and this may be the most appropriate time to do it.
Thanks in advance for any input
Savvas
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Savvas N. Savvides
Professor of Structural Biology
Ghent University
Laboratory for Protein Biochemistry
K.L.Ledeganckstraat 35
9000 Ghent, BELGIUM
Phone: +32-(0)9-264.51.24 ; +32-(0)472-92.85.19
FAX: +32-(0)9-264.53.38
Email: [email protected]
