If the build and install worked, you should find it at /usr/local/bin/OBGUI, or something similar.
- Noel On 30 June 2011 12:40, Steven Wathen <swat...@sienaheights.edu> wrote: > Thanks for tip on setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, that helped a lot, but I still > don't see the GUI anywhere. > > Just be to sure I hadn't missed anything, I repeated the build and install > procedure. I got a message saying that it found WXwidgets and that the GUI > would be built, but I can't find the GUI - How am I supposed to access it if > it has been built? > > These are the Wxwidget packages I have installed through the Ubuntu package > manager: > > wx2.8-headers > libwxgtk2.8-0 > wx-common > libwxgtk2.8-dev > libwxbase2.8-0 > libwxbase2.8-dev > ________________________________________ > From: Noel O'Boyle [baoille...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 9:35 AM > To: Steven Wathen > Cc: openbabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Open Babel] building Open Babel on Ubuntu > > On 25 June 2011 22:03, Steven Wathen <swat...@sienaheights.edu> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I just tried compiling OpenBabel 2.3.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid and I have a >> couple of questions. >> >> I had been using openbabel 2.2.2 which I had installed through the Ubuntu >> repositories - I uninstalled the old version before building Openbabel 2.3 >> following directions on: >> >> http://openbabel.org/docs/2.3.0/Installation/install.html >> >> I used the following cmake command >> >> cmake ../openbabel-2.3.0 -DBUILD_GUI=ON -DPYTHON_BINDINGS=ON >> -DPERL_BINDINGS=ON >> >> and I added " /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages" to the PYTHONPATH >> >> I can successfully run obabel from the command line, but I mostly use open >> babel from Python using pybel. I get error when try to import pybel in >> python: >> >>>>> from pybel import * >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pybel.py", line 16, in <module> >> import openbabel as ob >> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/openbabel.py", line 63, in >> <module> >> _openbabel = swig_import_helper() >> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/openbabel.py", line 59, in >> swig_import_helper >> _mod = imp.load_module('_openbabel', fp, pathname, description) >> ImportError: libopenbabel.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file >> or directory > > On Linux, to find an ".so", the folder containing it needs to be added > to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib" or so. > >> Can you tell me why I am unable to import the pybel bindings in python? >> How can I fix this? >> >> Also - I meant to build the OpenBabelGUI, but I can't find it. How do you >> access the OpenBabel GUI on Linux? > > wxWidgets is required to build the GUI. When you run CMake, you will > see a message saying it couldn't find it. See the docs > (http://openbabel.org/docs/2.3.0/Installation/install.html#compiling-open-babel) > for more info. > >> Thanks, >> >> Steve >> >> ------------- >> Dr. Steven P. Wathen >> Associate Professor of Chemistry >> Siena Heights University >> 1247 East Siena Heights Drive >> Adrian, MI 49221 >> >> (517) 264-7657 >> swat...@sienaheights.edu >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security >> threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes >> sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenBabel-discuss mailing list >> OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
