Re: [Jmol-users] java

[Egon W. <eg...@sc...>]

On Thursday 05 December 2002 18:53, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> I want to have a look at jmol. I use xmol a lot, but I am annoyed that I
> have to ftp the structures to that old sun machine to see it...
>
> So, I took the jmol sources and tried to compiled. First the jmol script
> failed with the message:
>
> ciobica:/usr/local/jmol-5# ./jmol
> ./jmol: Command not found.
> Exit 1

Compiling is not done with the jmol script. If you downloaded a binary version 
of Jmol, i.e. jmol-5.tar.gz or jmol-5.zip, then you do not need to compile 
Jmol at all... If you downloaded the source code, then you should install Ant 
(which is distributed with Debian 3.0), and then type:

ant -Ddocbook.dir=

> Finally I figured out that it complained about the shell.
> I installed pdksh and changed the first line of the script from
> #!/bin/ksh
> to
> #!/usr/bin/ksh

You can better make that line:

#! /bin/sh

(I use Debian 3.0 too)

You could also use the Debian package for Jmol 4 (I'll have not had time yet 
to make a package for Jmol 5)... 

> Now it says:
>
> ciobica:/usr/local/jmol-5# ./jmol
> ./jmol[39]: java: not found
> Exit 127
>
> I browsed all the packages containing the word java and I installed
> java-common, but the error remains.

Java is not distributed with Debian itself, as it is not Open Source...
But you can download excellent Debian packages from
http://www.blackdown.org/

> What is java and what do I need to install to have it work? You don't
> have a requirements on the http://jmol.sourceforge.net page.
>
> I run Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 and a 2.4.18 kernel.

Let me know if you have more succes after these comments...

kind regards,

Egon