I've just installed pymol 0.99rc6 on Mac OS X (10.3.9). Because I'm still running Panther and I no longer have the system python installed (instead I have 2.4) I couldn't use macpymol-0_99rc6.tar.gz as pymol no longer comes with its own copy of python. macpymol-0_99rc6.tar.gz fails trying to load some 2.3 python.
I can't use the Mac OS X / X11 hybrid, because I don't have Tiger. So I decided to try installing from source. I took option 1 to see what would happen: | To use Approach 1: | | You must have OpenGL, glut, libpng, tcl/tk, python, freetype2, and | Pmw already installed on your system for this to work. | | python setup.py install | python setup2.py install | ./pymol I only needed to install Pmw and the build & install worked fine. Problem 1: When I run ./pymol, it tries to open X11 (and fails) and produces a weird looking non-functional external GUI. Image in http://jones.tc/images/pymol.png When I run ./pymol -qx I get just the internal GUI window just fine, I can type at it, run commands, etc. Problem 2: When I try to launch pymol from a python script: import __main__ __main__.pymol_argv = ['pymol', '-qx'] import pymol pymol.finish_launching() print "finished" It pops up the internal GUI window, but then I get Apple's spinning colored pizza of death and no response at all - I have to kill it with Control-c in the terminal window. Terminal continues to be the running app, there's no switch to python (i.e., Mac OS X continues to have the Terminal menu). The "finished" line is printed. If anyone has any hints on Problem 1 or 2 above, I'd be happy to hear them. And yes, I should bite the bullet and upgrade to Tiger. Regards, Terry
