Hi Arvind,

* Arvind Marathe <arv...@mbu.iisc.ernet.in> [2006-06-09 00:14] wrote:
> Hi all,
> my system is a newly installed debian-3.1 linux. 'pymol' seems to be part
> of the installed package. But when I try to open pymol, I get the
> following error:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ pymol
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pymol/__init__.py", line 329, in ?
>     import _cmd
> ImportError: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Can somebody please point out the cause and the remedy? I have never used
> pymol before and this was my first try.

You need to install the freeglut3 package:

  apt-get install freeglut3

should take care of it for you.

Cheers,
Rob
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