[PyMOL] debian: error in opening pymol

[Arvind M. <ar...@mb...>]

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:

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$ 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 o=
r
directory
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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