Installation of Pymol 1.2r3pre

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Still again, the dilemma: package vs source code… Pymol has lots of dependencies which make compiling quite a work. However, it is popular enough in the community that a quite recent Ubuntu package exists. To install Pymol the Impilo way, I did the following:

• Install the program via apt-get:

% sudo apt-get -y install pymol

• By default, it install the application in the Science menu (the freedesktop.org way). Because I want it in the Impilo menu, I have to edit the /usr/share/applications/pymol.desktop file to add a line at the very end of the file:

NoDisplay=True

• You can now add Pymol in the Impilo menu by editing the Xfce4 configuration file:

% sudo xfce4-menueditor /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml

• The three things to add are :
  • Item: Launcher
  • Name: Pymol
  • Command: pymol