Christoph, The message "Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]" indicates that Python is not being initialized properly. You may need to set PYTHONHOME explicitly in the pymol startup script.
Cheers, Warren -- DeLano Scientific LLC Subscriber Support Services mailto:del...@delsci.info Not yet a PyMOL Subscriber, but want to support the project? Email sa...@delsci.com to quote your lab, school, or employer. Thank you for participating! -----Original Message----- From: pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Christoph Kaiser Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:22 AM To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [PyMOL] Pymol installation probs on ubuntu Hello, sorry for mybe asking stupid beginner's questions, but that's actually what i am ;-) i just tried to get pymol running on ubuntu. turns aout to ba a problem. i have python 2.4, 2.3 and 2.2 installed via the synaptic package manager, but when i tried to add pymol - also by synaptic - i already got some probs, as it was not able to find some moduels. i could fix this problem by changing the environment variables in the python start script. now i ran into the following prob, for which i can't find any solution: christ...@richterpc1:/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pymol$ pymol Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pymol/__init__.py", line 105, in ? import pymol File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pymol/__init__.py", line 329, in ? import _cmd ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pymol/_cmd.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_SetDefaultEncoding can anyone help me to fix this problem? Thanks a lot in advance Christoph * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Christoph Kaiser TU München Department of Chemistry Biotechnology Laboratory Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchner mail: christoph.kai...@ch.tum.de phone: +49 089 289 13 371 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users