Dear Michael, we are running pymol on several ubuntu machines including laptops. I simply installed the package pymol from synaptic. If you cannot find the pymol package you might have to activate all software sources / channels. There is no need to download any files from the pymol website.
Best regards, Claudio Shah Am Mittwoch, den 15.12.2010, 10:50 -0500 schrieb Michael Murphy: > I running Ubuntu on a laptop (Toshiba Satellite L505 ATI/AMD FGLRX > graphics driver). I downloaded and installed PyMol but it runs poorly. > For some reason, it runs fine the very first time I use it after I > login, but every time I launch it after that all of the buttons and > text of the the PyMol Viewer appear as nonsensical characters and the > molecule is very distorted. Is there any way that I can fix this so > that I do not have to log out and login every time I want to use it? -- Claudio Shah, PhD student Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC) AG Daumke | House 31.2 Room 0228 Robert-Rössle-Str. 10 13125 Berlin - Germany phone: +49 30 9406 3275 fax: +49 30 9406 3814 email: claudio.s...@mdc-berlin.de
