Re: CCL:Swiss PDB Viewer in Red Hat 7.3

From: Thomas Wein <twein -x- at -x- t2-consult.de>
Subject: Re: CCL:Swiss PDB Viewer in Red Hat 7.3
Date: 24 Jul 2002 08:37:25 +0200
Hi Sergio,
 for me the procedure described in the Install FAQs worked fine.
 I'm running RedHat 7.3 (downloaded fomr RedHat as ISO images) on a PIII
 box with Nvidia graphics card and Nvidia Linux drivers (Versions:
 NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2960.rh73up and NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2960). When starting
 Swiss-Prot-Viewer is says "Swiss PDB Viewer accellerated with OpenGL".
 Find them here: http://us.expasy.org/spdbv/text/faq.htm#linux
 And the text is:
    1.  error in loading shared libraries: libMesaGL.so.3. ...
       Why this
       The simple reason for this is that the newer Mesa now uses
 different names for the libraries than those with which SPDBV has been
 linked with. Apparently they are now called libGL.so and libGLU.so
 instead of libMesaGL.so and libMesaGLU.so.
       How to solve it
       The new Mesa is completly backward compatible and should not harm
 SPDBV from working properly. So there is no need to install an old Mesa
 version.
       Just a little hack is needed to get it work: if you can get root
 access to your linux box, make the following symbolic links from the new
 libraries to the old names:
 ln -s  /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libMesaGL.so.3
 ln -s  /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.2.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libMesaGLU.so.3
       then run
 /sbin/ldconfig
       to make the system remember this changes.
       (I assumed that the libraries are installed under /usr/X11R6/lib.
 If this is not correct, please adjust the above commands with the
 correct location.)
 Good luck
 Thomas Wein
 On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 00:14, Sergio wrote:
 > Hi, has anyone managed to install SPDBV in Red Hat 7.3 in redirect the old
 > Mesa library to the new OpenGL library?
 >
 > I haven't...
 >
 > Anyone has, please let me know!
 >
 > Sergio
 >
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