Depth-First

The compilation method described here was adapted from a posting on ubuntuforums.org.

To install from source, download the PyMOL distribution from SourceForge. Prepare your system with:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libglew1.5-dev python-pmw
$ sudo apt-get build-dep pymol
$ cd Downloads
$ tar xvf pymol-v1.4.1.tar.bz2
$ cd pymol
$ python setup.py build
$ sudo python setup.py install
$ sudo python setup2.py install

Add the pymol binary to your path by appending the following to your .bashrc file:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/local/pymol
export PATH

Now, move the compiled PyMOL distribution to ~local and reload the .bashrc file:

$ cd
$ mkdir local
$ mv Downloads/pymol local
$ source .bashrc

PyMOL can now be run from any directory with:

$ pymol

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