[PyMOL] debian: error in opening pymol

2006-06-08 Thread Arvind Marathe 
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.

Thanks in advance
Regards,
Arvind

Re: [PyMOL] debian: error in opening pymol

2006-06-08 Thread Robert Campbell 
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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