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Installation of Jmol 11.7.46

Installation of Jmol 11.7.46

Additional libraries

Java, already installed.

Procedure

Here is the procedure to install Jmol:

  • Jmol is distributed as a JAR archive, ready to execute through a startup script. Create a folder under /home/bioubuntu to put all this and move this folder into /opt/bio/sources.
  • This shoulder should belong to root and its permissions set to 755.
% sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bio/sources/jmol-11.7.46
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/jmol-11.7.46
  • Once you are in /opt/bio/sources/jmol-11.7.46, the jmol script needs to be edited to add a JMOL_HOME bash environment variable. At the very top, just under the #!/bin/sh line, add this line:
export JMOL_HOME=/opt/bio/sources/jmol-11.7.46
  • To make sure that jmol is available to all, do this:
% sudo ln -s /opt/bio/sources/jmol-11.7.46/jmol /usr/local/bin/jmol
  • To add Jmol to the Impilo application menu, you need to edit the Xfce4 configuration file:
% sudo xfce4-menueditor /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml
  • The three items to add are:
    • Item: Launcher
    • Name: Jmol
    • Command: jmol