Installation of Pymol 1.3

• tcl8.5
• tcl8.5-dev
• tk8.5
• tk8.5-dev
• freeglut3
• freeglut3-dev
• libfreetype6
• libfreetype6-dev
• python-pmw
• subversion

% sudo apt-get install -y tcl8.5 tcl8.5-dev tk8.5 tk8.5-dev freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev python-pmw subversion

Always this question: package vs source code… In previous installs, I used the pymol package via apt-get. However, this package is always a little late compared to soruce code. I decide to tackle the problem head-on and built pymol from source code:

• You need to fetch the source code from the SCM repository on sourceforge.net:

% svn co https://pymol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pymol/trunk/pymol pymol

• You will find a pymol folder in your home folder. This new folder needs to move toward /opt/bio/sources, should belong to root ant its permissions set to 755:

% sudo mv pymol /opt/bio/sources
% sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bio/sources/pymol
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/pymol

• You need to do the compiling:

% cd /opt/bio/sources/pymol
% sudo python setup.py install
// This will take some time to do...
% sudo python setup2.py install

• You need to make the newly created executable available to all:

% sudo ln -s /opt/bio/sources/pymol/pymol /usr/local/bin/pymol

• You need to add pymol to the Impilo > 2D/3D Molecule analysis
  • À venir

• To use pymol from the command line:

% pymol