Re: [PyMOL] Forced Linux/Python upgrade, killed PyMol, please help!

[Robert C. <rob...@qu...>]

Hi John,

On Wed, 2011-12-21 11:12  EST,  John Ladasky <joh...@sb...>
wrote:

> Hello everyone.  It has been a while since I posted here.  Apologies to 
> the admins, I tried to subscribe again, and I forgot that I was already 
> subscribed.
> 
> For some non-PyMol work, I was obligated to upgrade my operating system 
> to Ubuntu Linux 11.10.  In fact, the specific reason that I had to 
> upgrade was to get Python 2.7 as the default Python on my computer.
> 
> The Ubuntu Linux 11.10 repository listed PyMol 1.4.1, so I downloaded it 
> and installed it.  When I attempted to launch PyMol, nothing happened.  
> So I visited the PyMol web page and found this:
> 
> "PyMOL v1.4+ do not run on SLED 10.2 due to a bug in Python 2.7 and
> Tcl/Tk."
> 
> http://www.pymol.org/support/platforms
> 
> Ouch.

I use Debian testing, upon which Ubuntu is based.  I use PyMOL with python
2.7 without any problem.  The only problem I do have is that I have to
compile it with gcc-4.5, rather than the default gcc-4.6 compiler (at least
this was true the last time I checked a few weeks ago).

I compile PyMOL myself after downloading from the SVN sources using the
simple routine of:

CC=gcc-4.5 python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/software/Linux
python setup2.py install

The "--prefix" option just allows me to put the software on an NFS mounted
disk, rather than on my own machine, so it is available to all the lab
computers.

Cheers,
Rob
-- 
Robert L. Campbell, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate/Adjunct Assistant Professor 
Dept. of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, Botterell Hall Rm 644
Queen's University, 
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6  Canada
Tel: 613-533-6821
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