[PyMOL] Installing Pymol on SuSE-Linux 7.3 fails

[Marc S. <mar...@mp...>]

Hi all,

I recently downloaded the rpm-packages available from the 
pymol-sourceforge-site

(i.e.
      Numeric-20.2.1-1.i386.rpm
      Pmw-0.8.5-1.i386.rpm
      pymol-0_68-1.i386.rpm
)

and installed them, but after starting pymol, I got the following error:

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saric@m99106:/home/saric> pymol
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/pymol/launch_pymol.py", line 6, in ?
     import pymol
   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/pymol/__init__.py", line 24, in ?
     import _cmd
   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/pymol/_cmd.py", line 57, in ?
     import parsing
   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/pymol/parsing.py", line 592, in ?
     import cmd
   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/pymol/cmd.py", line 97, in ?
     lock_api = pymol.lock_api
AttributeError: 'pymol' module has no attribute 'lock_api'

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Further details of my setup:

P2/400 with Matrox-graphics-board running SuSE Linux 7.3
(kernel 2.4.10-4GB, glibc 2.2.4, XFree86 4.1.0/mga/glx, KDE 2.2.1, 
Python 2.1.1)

Here is the startup-message of python (the package included with
SuSE-Linux):

saric@m99106:/home/saric> python
Python 2.1.1 (#1, Sep 24 2001, 05:28:47)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>

importin of Pmw and Numeric works so far (I haven't tested it further 
though), but pymol won't start.

3D-acceleration works with a lot of other programs, and I use python as 
a scripting language now and then, so it should work in principle.

Can anybody point me to a possible sollution for this problem?

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Bye,  Marc Saric

Max-Planck-Institut fuer molekulare Physiologie
Otto-Hahn-Str.11  44227 Dortmund  phone:0231/133-2168